I’ve been kicking around the idea for a while of moving to another instance for a while for two reasons:
- We’re primarily on lemmy.ca because there was already a skeleton community here (around 80 subscribers pre-July migration)
- I believe that whose local feed we’re on has a significant impact on the overall tenor and level of interaction here.
This post is definitely not intended to suggest we’ve had any issues with lemmy.ca, but it always seemed like an odd fit. So my question to y’all is this: If you could choose any instance to have an outsized effect on this community, which would it be?
I like the idea of slrpnk, but not lemmy.world.
My lemmy “philosophy” is that generic centralization should be discouraged. I prefer more “category-like” centralization. This is not just to support my preferred usage pattern (browse and participate “local” on multiple instances), but to ensure that lemmy doesn’t evolve toward major centralized instances that end up just being just another clone of the various commercial platforms.
Centralization means less diversity in rules, less diversity in enforcement, and higher instance costs. I think the loss of diversity is just a bad idea, because it leaves less room for widespread experimentation. Higher instance costs could be a problem if instance owners find themselves needing to monetize the instance in order to remain solvent. The outcome is a generally less resilient system.