That's why I blocked LW to support the competition

Who needs to block LW when you can just be on an instance that's 5 days behind federating with them, due to their own failure to keep their instance properly up to date.
- Its up to date, they just haven't enabled the option to actually fix the problem that came in the new update.
  I think .world is a net positive to the fediverse, but its still too big.
  
  Yeah I know that. I just didn't think it was a detail worth getting into in a short pithy comment.

https://lemmyverse.net/communities?order=active
9 of the top 10 are LW
LW delay with Aussie.zone is now at 4 days : https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/40460535?scrollToComments=true
- Wow, didn't know about that delay and the technical reasons behind it. That's wild!
- I'm not subscribed to any of them 😎

I see plenty of non LW instances. Its balanced fine IMO. I'd prefer to have a big instance where new users can join and see a populated active feed.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4619
I think, for the health of the fediverse, this is a really important issue.

Blocking LW is self care.

Serious question: is Lemmy.world a problem if it gets big?
We want Lemmy to be successful. Users join and they're bound to concentrate in an instance that looks like it is the biggest (that's where I would sign up as a newbie). Other instance content still is consumable and interactable. Is this a problem?
- Someone on Lemmy told me this and it really stuck with me even though I always believed it even if I couldn’t put it into words.
  Having only one good solution means you’re only one good solution away from having no good solutions at all. That person wrote it more succinctly however, I’m worse at this :p
  
  True ideally.....but I would think having people on Lemmy is the main priority. Having a diversified Lemmy is secondary. If Lemmy.world pulls some shit then getting people to change instance shouldn't be as difficult as getting people to change platform.
  Lemmy competes against single solutions like Reddit. It's still better to have an overpopulated Lemmy.world rather than Reddit.
- It's just that we should avoid putting all our fruit into one basket. Lemmy.world has some problematic policies and lack of moderation on bigotry.
- Yeah, because it'll centralise the fediverse more. Although I think if Lemmy.world was bought by Elon Musk tomorrow and turned off federation, the fediverse would survive. In fact, I reckon a large amount of people would move off of Lemmy.world due to the principal of federation.
  
  Was previously kbin.social and moved to lemmy.world for a better experience. Can confirm I would move off if .world ever posed an huge issue even outside of your example.
- https://lemm.ee/post/60524313/19476282

I think that is a little too agressive, my prefered way is to post to community, if it is the largest, or if the largest on lemmy.eorld, then second largest.
- Lemmy.world has a lot of problems, I can't unsee all the cracks. You may empathize with it more as that is your home instance.
  
  lemmy.world ≠ lemmings.world
  understand the confusion tho 😅