What the title says. I think there is still a long way for that to happen but i’ve been hopeful. What do you think?

  • Fangslash@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    unfortunately, probably not

    it has nothing to do with how the coummnities are ran or what technology/apps we have, the issue is that decentralised networks almost always have worse infrastructures compare to centralised ones. lemmy.world is already lagging quite a bit, and eventually the admins will be overwhelmed by the shear number of users.

    Unless federation figures out a way to distribute load or monetize for server cost, I dont think it will become mainstream

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      1 year ago

      Literally all you have to do is join another instance brother, that’s how you distribute load. As for monetization, we’ll cross that bridge when we get there.

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        1 year ago

        Here I’m referring to automatic load distribution. Expecting users to actively choose a good server requires quite a bit of technical knowledge (how servers work) and effort (search and compare), thats probably not something the general public is willing to do