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this post was submitted on 06 Aug 2023
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The problem is that Reddit has a massive user-base and profits from the FOMO on newcomers while Lemmy is a very small thing most people don't know about and there are multiple cases of instances defederating others just because they feel like it... like the BS that beehaw.org pulled. Now we've lemmy.world and beehaw.org two of the largest instances that don't talk to each other.
This is when degeneration is used with sanity. However, people just use that feature to cancel people they don't like. And this hurts smaller instances a lot.