Obviously a few years ago, the API changes caused the reddit community mods to strike, and caused a mass-blackout of most reddit core communities. Eventually Reddit removed a handful of mod teams on some notable subreddits and caused the rest to chicken-out. But it did birth the Fediverse properly.

I suspect Reddit will make another step at some point which causes another comparable exodus. This time, if they do, the Fediverse is far better developed to handle it. What do you imagine it might be?

  • Skavau@piefed.socialOPEnglish
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    13 days ago

    I’m still confused about multiple instances, why bifurcate the community (are there multiple instances of knitting communities on lemmy?).

    To prevent the centralisation of power into a single instance. If Lemmy.world was the only instance and the owners and admins would have full power. Because the fediverse is centralised, if the instance goes bad - or some moderators on communities there go bad, they can be replaced on another instance.

    (are there multiple instances of knitting communities on lemmy?).

    Yes, but none of them are active.