• zarkanian@sh.itjust.works
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    7 months ago

    If you join a small instance, the chances are higher that it will a) be poorly maintained and b) fold quicker, forcing you to find another instance to join and re-subscribe to all your communities.

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      7 months ago

      so long as you’re regularly exporting your profile, moving instances isn’t a big deal anymore.

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            7 months ago

            For most users, price and convenience. That’s been made very clear over and over again.

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              Sure, but eventually the lack of freedom and security drives them away when the service enshittifies thoroughly.

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                7 months ago

                That’s what we like to think. Facebook, Google, kinda shows us most users are perfectly happy to continue taking abuse, though

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                  7 months ago

                  With social media companies, they seem unassailable, until the trust thermocline is breached, and then they collapse all at once.

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                    7 months ago

                    As lemmy becomes mainstream, those users will become the average user here. Eternal September is just the way of things

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      7 months ago

      I run my own instance that technically does have open registration, but I can’t really recommend anyone actually sign up to use it. It’s not running on very powerful hardware, and my commitment to keeping it running 24/7 is “as long as it stays convenient and interesting.” There are probably many, many of those. But there are a good collection of second and third tier instances now as well, I’m not to worried about .world’s popularity so long as they don’t do something like switch to a federation allow-list rather than a block list.

      • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comM
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        7 months ago

        If by open registration, you mean without approval, I strongly recommend you add an approval step, due to spam.