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this post was submitted on 04 Jul 2023
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I do think there should be a hard limit to the number of total users in an instance. Otherwise as you said the content will get centralised in a specific instance. But that limit should be much higher than what lemmy.world now has. Also closing new registration at this time would be detrimental to the overall ecosystem. This is just my personal opinion.
Having the user count far exceed what the servers can handle is also detrimental to the ecosystem.
People aren't patient. And the current instability we're seeing will just make people give up on Lemmy after a brief attempt to settle in.
You raise a valid point. But finding new communities is much harder in smaller instances. So there is a chance the user will not find content they are interested in.
Isn't the intent of federation, however, that every instance should have access to every community? So even those small instances be able to access the same communities.
Not seeing something means you've intentionally defederarated them (or maybe they've defederarated you?)
Or a server is dying somewhere.
They do have access to every community. But it won't show up in the community tab until someone in their instance have already joined that community. Correct me if am wrong.