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The fediverse model is non-sustainable.
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this post was submitted on 16 Jan 2024
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Did you read the whole post?
My point is not that someone will shut down the fediverse, my point is that small and medium instances got shutdown within a year, what that leave us with, is a centralized big instance that does not use the fediverse and holds so much power.(think Lemmy.world/lemmy.ml)
All this leads me to the conclusion that the superior options in this case as I keep saying is:
(BTW, one of the benefits of the centralized service is easier moderation.)
The problem sounds more like hobbyists trying something out and finding they don't like it or can't sustain it to make it bigger. It still costs money to host the servers and maintain a domain name. If the instance hosts can't afford to keep it up or have no motivation to do so, of course they will eventually shut down, and I would expect many small instances to die after a few months because there's no justification to keep spending money on hosting a thing barely anyone is using. Host your own if you want. Join a bigger one that actually has some kind of funding to keep going. Simply due to the fact that any random person with the time and resources can run their own servers to host the same software is what makes federated stuff resilient and nigh unkillable.
If it was centralized, if just that 1 thing died so too would the entire idea. Like putting all your eggs in one basket.
You don't want to understand my points or argue with good faith.
You just want to say fediverse is good any other option is bad and if I don't agree then I should look elsewhere.
The good news for you is that I am actually going to move to another service in a month, the bad news is you will keep pretending that the fediverse is perfect till you see the day where everything I just said and you ignored, is proven to be valid and truthful.
You're making good points, and I want to read them but, the terrible/lack of punctuation makes it so I have to read everything twice to understand what you're saying... I mean this purely as constructive criticism because you seem like an intelligent person with intelligent points to convey.