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How will lemmy instances survive if they get too big?
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this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2023
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The better question is, how will lemmy survive if instances get too big. The whole point of the fediverse is to prevent centralization.
IMO we need self-imposed regulations that are community enforced. In the context of user count, the community should decide on an appropriate max active user count. Each instance should deactivate signups if they're over the limit, and if they refuse, other instances should defederate them until they do. In general I'm not a fan of defederation, but I also don't think we should defederate threads just because it's owned by Meta. It should be defederated because it's behavior is anti-fediverse.