burggit seems like a cesspool breeding ground
ikantolol
joined 1 year ago
it's arbitrary and the developer probably didn't expect Lemmy to grow that big lol
is there a way to see lemmy instances sorted by subscriber amount ? I might wanna join the smaller ones lol
any reason it's the 7th ?
there are instances in the past where big players acquire the small ones and while at first they seem to be cooperative, it ultimately destroys the small players, one such case is XMPP the open chat protocols long before we have Matrix, killed by Google
https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish
I guess this is a cautionary action, better to grow slower rather than be killed by Meta.
Yes, I also understand that it's something that's unavoidable with fediverse. That response was made in shock when I visited the site, hopefully there will be ways to block whole site on per-user basis, rather than leaving it to admins.