• Stoneykins [any]@mander.xyzEnglish
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    11 months ago

    People seem to only want their accounts on “general use” instances that are already pretty popular.

    Which is… bizarre. There is no downside to having your account on a more niche instance (as long as it isn’t so niche that it gets turned off), and there are arguably disadvantages to having your account on a more popular instance.

    • Default@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      11 months ago

      A slight advantage to big servers is the increase in anonymity on the backend. Given the server admins can do what ever that want. An admin on small server would no doubt be looking into who and where their individual users are. Big severs are more likely to become more population based. Doesn’t really matter though I suppose.

      • imsodin@infosec.pubEnglish
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        11 months ago

        Yeah no exact opposite for me: Big server means lots of user data making abuse of it more appealing and impactful. While an admin of a small instance having some fun digging through user internals would really do no harm (I don’t believe that’s a particularly typical hobby of small instance admins though xD ).

    • Nerd02@lemmy.basedcount.comEnglish
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      11 months ago

      The disadvantage of being on a small instance is that you could have an admin who is a fucking moron and ends up breaking stuff because they don’t know what they are doing.

      Sauce: am admin. am fucking moron.

    • neutron@thelemmy.clubEnglish
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      11 months ago

      It’s not easy to see the list of all communities in an instance you don’t have an account. If I login and federate as user@example.com, I can see all the local communities inside example.com, but not others like lemmy.world. I don’t mean individual posts or an individual community, I mean list of all instance communities. I think this is one of high priority issues to be patched.