Don_Dickle to New [email protected]English • 1 month agoELI5 is open for business. Ask you questions big or smalllemmy.worldmessage-square21fedilinkarrow-up189arrow-down118
arrow-up171arrow-down1external-linkELI5 is open for business. Ask you questions big or smalllemmy.worldDon_Dickle to New [email protected]English • 1 month agomessage-square21fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish20•1 month agoNo. Decentralization is not inherently a good thing. The OPTION of decentralization is a good thing. The power of Lemmy isn’t the fact thzt it’s so fractured. That in itself isn’t a selling point. The selling point is that IF a community is problematic, you have the OPTION of fragmenting away from the toxic behavior. But until a community proves itself to need an alternative, fragmenting only serves to HURT the fediverse. Not help. One community with 50 users is 10x more powerful than 5 replica communities with 10 users each.
minus-squarepruwybenlinkfedilinkEnglish7•1 month agoYeah, but the ELI5 communities mentioned here are all on lemmy.world - that’s not decentralized.
Decentralization. It’s a good thing
No. Decentralization is not inherently a good thing. The OPTION of decentralization is a good thing.
The power of Lemmy isn’t the fact thzt it’s so fractured. That in itself isn’t a selling point.
The selling point is that IF a community is problematic, you have the OPTION of fragmenting away from the toxic behavior.
But until a community proves itself to need an alternative, fragmenting only serves to HURT the fediverse. Not help.
One community with 50 users is 10x more powerful than 5 replica communities with 10 users each.
Thanks
Yeah, but the ELI5 communities mentioned here are all on lemmy.world - that’s not decentralized.