I went searching for something today and instinctually clicked on a reddit link. Fortunately the sub was dark for the protest anyway, but it’s crazy how ingrained in me it is to go to reddit for everything.
Unfortunately now we’re going to have to get used to clicking on those clickbait tech articles like “TOP 10 FACEBOOK ALTERNATIVES 2023” to find information, and weed out the crappy blogs.
That’s the only issue with these multi-instance semi-decentralized solutions, we need users to spread out and learn how to sync in with the rest from there. Ideally, there would be some automated system to set users up on their lowest latency server with the most free capacity, or to be able to move a user to another server without having to start again.
federated isn’t actually the same thing as decentralized. lemmy isn’t intended to simply be a decentralized network of identical nodes that can automatically be synced and load balanced.
it is expected that each instance will be have it’s own flavor, and have the autonomy to decide which other instances to mesh with.
think more like a network of grassroot communities, and less like a MacDonald’s franchise.