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Excited by the “fediverse” but wondering about the future (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by minim@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world
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In particular, it seems to me that centralization is almost a law of the universe (or at least a tendency). Lemmy may start decentralized, with dozens or hundreds of meaningfully-sized instances, but it’s easy to imagine a not-far future where most everyone has settled on just a handful of instances (or even just one).

I don’t mean to just be a pessimist here. I’m sure I’m far from the first person to wonder about this, and I’m curious whether there are ideas of how to counterbalance the tendency toward centralization.

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[–] WindInTrees@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well technically you don't have to have logins for all the instances - that's the beauty of it

[–] N12@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

while that is true, finding and joining new /c's is klunky atm and not set up in a way that makes large growth likely

[–] ScottE@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Definitely. As much as a centralized /c namespace is against all the principles of a decentralized system, lack of a centralized namespace results in topical duplication and hinders discovery. I don't know how, but seems to me some sort of happy medium has to fall out.