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Yes. A Lemmy insurance doesn't federate all content to all users. It federates only a single copy of any content to each instance that has users that subscribe to that content, and those instances put it on the timeline of their members that subscribe to it.
The federation design can handle a lot more traffic than the trans community on reddit can generate.
It's better and worse than reddits tools. There are more active mods and admins that have less tolerance for bigotry, meaning that bigots get stomped on more reliably than on reddit. But creating new accounts is easy and locking down communities isn't as granular as it is on reddit.
Federation also allows an admin to restrict access to other instances that don't deal with trolls, or even to operate on a allow list basis. We're thinking of spinning up an allow list only instance to insulate sensitive groups from the wider fediverse, whilst allowing our members to access it.
Admins have access to the database for their instances, but that's true of reddit too. The difference is lemmy admins aren't selling that data off. And some instances (like blahaj) don't require an email address to register, and allow the use of VPNs. Privacy is best achieved by not providing identifying data in the first place and many instances work to enable that option.
Nothing. That's the biggest issue IMO. Content that federates will still be available on the instances it has federated to, but even then, the loss of the hosting instance makes it hard to coordinate a replacement.
I have hope that as the fediverse matures, this will improve and user and community mobility will protect against this.
The only thing I can say here is that it's less an issue than the possibility of reddit just banning a sub, because at least most of the content is recoverable on lemmy.
I'm interested in this as its basically the issue that we're potentially facing on reddit. There's a lot of trans sites that have died over the years, or in the cases of Susans lost years of data.
I had thought that Federation meant the communities were duplicated across instances providing redundancy, but it sounds like that's not correct. Am I correct in thinking if the instance dies then there's no real way to rebuild the community as it was before?
What actually happens?
I just signed up here and it appears my account is tied to this instance. If this instance is lost then my account is lost? I can make accounts on other instances, but there's nothing tying them together?
Can a single instance handle a community of 100k members? Can this one? What's the limit?
There's an incredible amount of hate and chasers on reddit, and if you had to rely on manual moderation I don't think anyone could cope. You may not be seeing it here because Lemmy is smaller, not as well know, and appears to be a bit harder to use and keeps out the idiots. The sub moderation is part of it, with lots of automated filtering (which is why the people from Lemmy were having trouble posting in the sub), but the site also keeps them suppressed. When it didn't it was really bad.
This is so encouraging imo thank you