On the one hand, having most of the users and communities on LW causes technical issues (see this post), and also gives the LW staff too much power over Lemmy as a whole.

On the other hand, with 18k MAU on LW out of 47k (https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy/), every community listed there has a much higher chance of visibility compared to an alternative hosted on another instance

History of LW controversial decisions

when they promoted Discord as an official communication channel (https://lemmy.world/post/3478399 - since then they created a Matrix chat)
when they blocked the piracy communities (https://lemmy.world/post/13320356 )
when they announced they might move from Lemmy to Sublinks (some comments from LW admins were quite controversial: https://lemmy.world/post/13899357 )
when they forced the media bias fact checker bot and discarded user feedback (https://lemmy.world/post/18775630 - to be fair, they since then removed it from !news@lemmy.world , it's still in !politics@lemmy.world )
when they realized centralization of communities on LW was impacting the ability of other instances to stay up to date (https://lemmy.world/post/13967373 )
when they updated their rules following a power trip overtake of a community (https://feddit.org/post/2308651 )

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[–] Die4Ever@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

spreading out a bit would be nice, although there are some things that could help some of these issues anyways

federation: parallel sending per instance
Federate lightweight list of communities to ease discovery / find remote communities (helps "every community listed there has a much higher chance of visibility compared to an alternative hosted on another instance")

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

From what I read on the aussie.zone thread (https://aussie.zone/post/9964509/11627914 ) they already tried a few things

The last one would be to have a proxy in Europe, but they don't want to (which I can understand)

[–] Die4Ever@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

yea but the new parallel sending feature should help them more, we'll see when it gets released

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Hopefully soon!

[–] Die4Ever@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago

It's already been in beta testing for a little while so probably releasing soon! Of course that's a bit of a risky change lol so I'll be waiting and see if any bugs are discovered in the weeks after release.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 2 points 11 months ago

Other issues experiences by Aussie.zone: https://aussie.zone/post/9964509/11627914

Thank you @Baku@aussie.zone

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 1 points 11 months ago

Updated the post with history of LW controversial decisions

[–] Mr_Mofu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

Yknow that's one of the main reasons why I exclusively create communitys and smallerish instances. Especially blahaj zone my beloved

[–] simple@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Hot take: No.

Lemmy.world being the "main" instance is natural, and Lemmy makes it difficult to discover new communities so it's also natural that lots of discussion would be in lemmy.world, too.

There was also still an unresolved issue where some instances can disappear and take out all their communities. Remember lemmy.film? I believe the Lemmy devs once said they want to make a system to migrate communities in case something like this happens but nobody knows when it'll get added.

I think it's a platform problem, I understand that connecting to all sorts of instances is the point of the fediverse but until it becomes more intuitive and less dangerous, I'm going to just stick with the most popular communities. Attempting to move people out of lemmy.world and into other duplicate communities will only split people more.

[–] small44@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The issue is that a tool to migrate all contents, likes and followers doesn't exist so people are afraid to build on small instances

[–] Blaze@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

True, but after all this time I wouldn't trust Lemm.ee or SJW less than LW

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