manitcor , 1 year ago

i don’t think people “want” them IMO, I think you have a lot of people that aren’t understanding the concept of federation. I am “that guy” trying to explain that letting instances get too big creates the same “reddit” problems again. Its better to move control over your space to something more local IMO.

there are also plans to add some scaling so I do expect there to be support for big instances.

I haven’t seen a single advantage of being on a big server (i have accounts on a lot of these systems). My small instance of less than 100 users currently loads pretty much everything I have no issues posting or getting replies, there is an odd issue here and there but you get the same big instance to big instance as well, its more in the servers impl that needs smoothing.

Small instances are fast and you get A LOT of control over your All and other pages.

Most internet users that started using the internet in the last 10 years or so think a centralized internet is a normal internet, they think domains rule the world. We need to teach them how this really works and how we don’t need to bend knee to people to communicate.