Comment on Doesn't each community being local to each instance split the audience?
Th4tGuyII@kbin.social 11 months ago
To a certain extent it splits the audience, but that's the intention behind federation - to allow communities split across instances to talk to one another.
The main reasons for doing this are:
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It keeps server costs down. Bigger servers require bigger money, and the people running these servers are relying on donations, they're not billionaires that can just keep expanding forever.
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It prevents all our eggs being in one basket - if a server goes down, only the community on that server goes. All the other communities can continue, and may even have cached content from the downed server.
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It prevents the same power imbalance thar Reddit have. If a host starts acting malicious, the community can move to a different instance.
balancedchaos@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I had the same concerns as OP, and you have pretty much convinced me. Well done.