• Wats0ns@sh.itjust.worksOP
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    1 year ago

    Yes they can be on any instance, but I’m starting to get worried about the number of communities that are on Lemmy.world

      • MacFearrs@vlemmy.net
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        1 year ago

        It disregards the benefits of a distributed platform. Imagine if the admins went rouge, or the server data was irreversibly lost, suddenly all that content would be gone or under the authoritarian rule of the admins. Bit dramatic but you get the point.

        If the majority of content is on there, we’ve quite literally taken a decentralised system and centralised it lol

      • terribleplan@lemmy.nrd.li
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        1 year ago

        Communities are inherently tied to the instance on which they are created and cannot be moved. If the instance is overloaded then that community will not federate properly. If the instance goes down nobody can post to the community. If the instance goes away that community goes away (except for the “cache” that other instances have).