Probably a very polarizing question.

On the one hand, having most of the users and communities on LW causes technical issues (see this post), and also gives the LW staff too much power over Lemmy as a whole.

On the other hand, with 18k MAU on LW out of 47k (https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy/), every community listed there has a much higher chance of visibility compared to an alternative hosted on another instance

History of LW controversial decisions

  • spujb@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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    7 months ago

    i don’t think compounding problems imply a single compound solution.

    instead, tackle each problem directly.

    • encourage account migration to combat overcentralization
    • encourage installment of more mods to combat ineffectual moderation
    • call for transparency in moderator selection to combat cronyism
    • Blaze@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
      0·
      7 months ago

      I see

      encourage account migration to combat overcentralization

      My gut feeling is that most of the people on LW are comfortable there, and wouldn’t see the point in decentralization. That happened in the past with the removal of privacy communities, or the fact that LW is still federated with Threads, still they have 18k MAU

      • spujb@lemmy.cafeEnglish
        1·
        7 months ago

        and that’s absolutely fair. i think another group though are uncomfortable and are simply unaware that they can move.

        for example, i saw a conversation where some folks were expressing uncomfortability that .world is federated with .ml. someone else brought up switching to an instance that was defederated with .ml (happened to be mine, shoutout .cafe) and they were all like “yo! dope let me do that”

        so it’s almost a matter of education/spreading awareness for some at least