If lemmy’s communities were not instance bound, but cross instance, it wouldn’t be that much of a problem. People could recreate their accounts on another instance and just join the same community.
Lemmy.world became the default instance during the Reddit migration, so I imagine that a lot of other instances would start jockeying for that role and to take some of those mod teams. I would expect a few months of chaos and a reduction in overall posts while the dust settles.
Lemmy.ml has been a bridge between the more normie and tankie communities on Lemmy. Without a middle ground, I see the moderation between the two groups becoming much harder.
Also, if lemmy.ml fails, it would likely mean that the developers of Lemmy have abandoned the project. If that happens, I expect several forks getting made as a new standard governing body is developed.
Nothing. That’s the whole point of federation.
Other instances would still be online, and it would be business as usual there.
There would likely be discussion about it on other instances, but Lemmy wouldn’t shut down just because .world or .ml went offline.
Well, not exactly nothing, the communities on them would likely move or merge somewhere else.
I would have to find and re-subscribe to a whole bunch of .world communities.
The loss of .ml would just be a plain improvement overall.
Why is .ml bad?
