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The main arguments for people to defederate are

  • “Embrace, extend, and extinguish” strategy: https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html
  • A potential federation with Threads (should Thread decide to implement it) would overwhelm Lemmy/Mbin/Piefed with millions of users (compared to the 40k monthly current active users), transforming those platforms into a threaded version of Facebook
  • Defederating preventively costs nothing
  • @PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
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    18 hours ago

    It’s made with Mermaid.

    If you mean what decision process is behind it, or what the point is, I couldn’t tell you. It just looks weird and alarming to me.

    There’s no money. And it’s not the right way to build a strong and successful community. So why, then, are they doing things in this fashion? The longer you look, the weirder it gets.

    • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝M
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      28 hours ago

      It just looks weird and alarming to me.

      It looks like we haven’t put enough effort into naming things here, at least to me.

      Tech Team Spiffy

      May need work.

      • @PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
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        38 hours ago

        At the end of the day, any team that’s trying to accomplish a technological task needs:

        • Sysop
        • Genius
        • Head Slapper
        • Business Guy

        As long as you’ve got those four roles covered, you’re probably good. You can have other people assisting, but if any of those isn’t covered, you’re in trouble.

        It looks to me like LW has the first one covered and none of the other three. Their system administration team, whatever else is going on with the place, is killing it.

          • @PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
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            27 hours ago

            Yes, although it’s usually safer to let one person specialize in each. If you try to cross the streams, you can introduce instability. Your head-slapping genius can turn into a megalomaniac over time and drive everyone off the project. Your genius business guy can turn out to be an absolute loony, and persuade everyone to work on a project that makes no sense and will never work. It’s better if everyone picks a lane.