this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2023
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When I switched they were one of the biggest communities, I'm really surprised to see just HOW FAR they fell.
beehaw defederating from lemmygrad was the entire reason why I created an account on lemmy.world
It doesn't appear like they value growth for growth's sake. And that's cool because it lets them focus on other, arguably more important, stuff. Many of our preconceived notions about social networking don't translate well to the federation model.
To be fair it's not really "falling" - Lemmy instances are not in competition with one another due to federation.
Understandably people want to feel like they "won" somehow, but this isn't something you really need to worry about on the Fediverse, it's more like everyone working alongside each other.