We are decentralized, according to FediDB, the Fediverse has 14.2 million accounts. Lemmy+Piefed+Mbin have 551k users. Obviously we could be better spread out, but the fact that there's no instance at 50% share is already pretty nice.

And if a big instance enshittified, it would be drastically easier for everyone to leave it compared to convincing people to leave Reddit or something. You just export/import your user settings and you get to keep the communities you've subscribed to and block, and the users you've blocked.

No. The idea is to have the constant looming threat of decentralization to keep the centralized system in check.

All those users are from different instances. That's decentralized.

If this community goes down or is otherwise not viable anymore, users can easily find another, similar community, while not having to switch to a different platform or instance or whatever themselves. That's how this is supposed to work.

Decentralization with different larger communities on different instances, with community members from all kinds of different instances, baby!

I came here after lemmy.ml said it was shutting down. Idk what happened a with that but world seemed stable enough to not have that problem

at least mbin is still going

See? Dozens of us! Dozens!

Turns out federation is a moot point when everyone is in the same server and everywhere else is de-federated anyway because people, mods and instance admins cannot behave.

I agree, it's sad what has become of db0.

Only up to 144,000.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jehovah%27s_Witnesses_and_salvation )

We're all going to heaven, the prophecy was about Lemmy it turns out

I'm a recent convert. Got banned by Reddit mods, like globally for an anti ICE comment. I called them brownshirts.