like world is not that popular? why couldnt we just have one server instead? whats the diffrence?

    • edvard@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      38·
      6 days ago

      hmm, true i guess, but whats the point of having many servers?

      • Mugmoor@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        14·
        6 days ago

        Decentralization.

        Quite a few of us joined Lemmy in the first place due to the problems a Central Authority caused on Reddit.

        obligatory Fuck /u/spez.

        • edvard@lemm.eeOPEnglish
          2·
          6 days ago

          ahh, so each server has it own rules? and if one server goes down, other servers still up?

      • lemmyng@lemmy.caEnglish
        8·
        6 days ago

        Severs can chose which other servers they federate with.

        Severs each have their own admin. You think the admin on your server is an asshole? Pack up and take your community to another server.

        Severs are each deployed in their own jurisdiction, making the federation more resilient to censorship.

  • Rentlar@lemmy.caEnglish
    16·
    6 days ago

    There are many benefits, and having many servers instead of one is the core idea to the Fediverse.

    Instead of a single towering kingdom at the whim of a monarch like spez/Redditco, Zuckerberg and Musk that call all the shots, you have a bunch of dukes and duchesses each ruling their duchy, but as a user you get the freedom to where you feel most comfortable. Yes, admins of each Lemmy server can act like tyrants and tinpot dictators, but to establish the network, there has to be open dialogue between admins to establish what behaviour is acceptable across servers. Admins that don’t or can’t control their users are exiled (de-federated).

    It’s also good for resilience: if you have a handful of accounts, and one of your servers go offline suddenly (from either random hardware/software issues, or a governmental takedown order), it doesn’t take all of Lemmy offline. I remember Redditors up in arms when its potato servers shit the bed.

  • kubica@fedia.io
    9·
    6 days ago

    What if you aren’t that much into that single server that exists? You’d have to give up all of the content. If contents are more disperse it’s harder to fall into the trap of depending on a single entity.