This commentary wasn't particularly targeted at beehaw. I was just saying that I don't see the appeal of generalized mega-instances going away.
Jeknilah
joined 2 years ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought Lemmy had mod logs by default.
Defederation is the moderation mask you speak of. Beehaw, for example, has the tankie instance blocked.
I also don't find the distinction between owner and miderator useful. In the case of decentralized Lemmy instances with less than 1k users, a single owner may act as both moderator and owner.
Yeah, I do like throwing hot takes out there. XD But I do think that you are asking a lot when you ask people to limit the scope of their instance.
It will always be easier to just add another community under a larger instance than to go out and self-host your own niche from scratch. There's certainly a temptation for an instance to go mega and general-purpose.
I'm not disagreeing that a single instance is a point of failure- just that people are willing to make that trade-off.