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A three panel meme of someone riding a bike.
- First panel: Someone riding on a bike. “Reddit is imploding, quick let’s get on Lemmy”
- Second panel: The bike starts to tip over on its own. “Oh shit there’s too many of us, we’re being defederated?”
- Third panel: They’ve fallen on the ground by the bike, holding their knee in pain. “Fucking Beehaw”
The beauty of the fediverse is, if someone on Beehaw doesn’t agree with their administrative decisions, they can just make an account on another instance.
Yeah, being part of an instance means you’re trusting them to moderate content (as with individual subreddits/communities/magazines). It’s a good thing. Maybe if down the line one instance gets so huge that it’s basically “the one” it could be a problem but if the fediverse keeps things relatively spread out it’s fine.
Not only that, but the ability to run your own instance to have full control over those decisions.