Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to New Communities@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agoELI5 is open for business. Ask you questions big or smalllemmy.worldexternal-linkmessage-square21fedilinkarrow-up189arrow-down119
arrow-up170arrow-down1external-linkELI5 is open for business. Ask you questions big or smalllemmy.worldDon_Dickle@lemmy.world to New Communities@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square21fedilink
minus-squareLost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21arrow-down1·5 months agoNo. Decentralization is not inherently a good thing. The OPTION of decentralization is a good thing. The power of Lemmy isn’t the fact thzt it’s so fractured. That in itself isn’t a selling point. The selling point is that IF a community is problematic, you have the OPTION of fragmenting away from the toxic behavior. But until a community proves itself to need an alternative, fragmenting only serves to HURT the fediverse. Not help. One community with 50 users is 10x more powerful than 5 replica communities with 10 users each.
No. Decentralization is not inherently a good thing. The OPTION of decentralization is a good thing.
The power of Lemmy isn’t the fact thzt it’s so fractured. That in itself isn’t a selling point.
The selling point is that IF a community is problematic, you have the OPTION of fragmenting away from the toxic behavior.
But until a community proves itself to need an alternative, fragmenting only serves to HURT the fediverse. Not help.
One community with 50 users is 10x more powerful than 5 replica communities with 10 users each.
Thanks