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  • Lazylazycat@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    You can say the same for lots of things though. I think if we want to take back control of discourse then we have to accept the cost.

    An example from a world I understand - putting on and taking part in free parties (in the UK and the rest of Europe) has a financial and time cost. But people put on these incredible festivals not for financial gain, and not to even break even as there’s no charge to get in, but because they love music and community. Some things are more important than profit.

    • jose423@lemmy.jgholistic.com
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      1 year ago

      Aren’t Reddit moderators already volunteer admins? Still, Lemmy has the same issue as Reddit when considering server costs, if not worse. On Reddit, if a post brings in high volume of traffic, their server (farm?) needs to be strong to handle the influx. On Lemmy, the server instance can go down… theoretically. Not sure how much load a post can cause. But, compared to Reddit, Lemmy federated design means high load situations are suboptimal.

      • Lazylazycat@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        They are, and yet they have limited control over the discourse as we’ve seen over the last month.

        I get your points - I’m interested and excited to see how the Feddiverse grows and I hope it remains sustainable. I feel uncharacteristically positive about it.

      • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club
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        1 year ago

        Reddit has a harsher delineation between mods and admins compared to Lemmy. It seems common for Lemmy admins to mod some of their communities, while that is really rare on Reddit.

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        1 year ago

        Sure, but the decentralized nature of the fediverse means that a single failure point is no longer enough to take the entire thing down.