I understand that the devs want to push people to other instances and keep this a niche instance. That's understandable. However, there are already communities created here and site outages break them for us on other instances as well. I would like to know if there are plans for the future of this instance and specifically:
- if it intends to stick around long term
- if it intends to scale up for the demand
If not, should we be looking to recreate them elsewhere?
Just checking the vibe. I see that this community doesn't have much activity, but maybe people are interested in migrating here amidst the reddit controversy.
I really don’t understand the benefit of being federated
The benefit is to prevent this from being the next Reddit. Being a nonprofit doesn't really guarantee anything in the long term. OpenAI was a non profit and now it isn't... Rather than trust a single entity to not abuse its power, federation aims to not give any entity all the power to begin with.
It also solves practical problems. Which single benign entity would pay for the servers and internet connections to become the new reddit? I don't think there is one.
