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this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2023
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No Stupid Questions
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Overall answer: too early to tell, but we can observe some things.
admin/mod abuse, maybe. If the bigger instances get too censorship-happy, smaller ones have to follow along or get defederated.
Reposting/x-posting, yes, we see this, even when not intentional. Not mentioned: fragmentation of communities across multiple instances. There was a good post about this earlier.
Privacy: yes this is an issue, but mostly less bad than centralized corporate sites like Reddit. I would prefer a self-hosted instance to deal with this, and might put one up sometime.
Server lag: this is an observable problem but I think it is because the current versions of the software are inefficient and/or trying to do too much. The amount of traffic is not that large. NNTP servers 30 years ago carried far more traffic than all the Lemmy instances put together, on computers 1/1000th of the speed and capacity of the bigger Lemmy servers. They were not on the web though (there was no web then). They basically only implemented the equivalent of the API, and let client apps handle the user interface. So they didn't manage subscriptions, upvotes, downvotes, block lists, etc. They just copied messages around. But as a longtime user of that system, I can tell you it was great until trolls and spammers ruined it.