Yes, but also decentralized design is not enough on its own!
It’s entirely possible that all of Lemmy could be a sea of independent instances, that are all hosted on AWS because it’s cheap or easy. Or if even just the big ones run on AWS, sure my instance could be up technically, but there’s no content. And in either case we’d be in the same situation despite the federated design.
We need to make sure, as a community, that we maintain a diversity of tech stacks between the instances too!
Also I think technically, nit-pickily, Lemmy is federated and not decentralized. Because actual true decentralization actually doesn’t care where any instance is hosted. I’m sorry, I know…
Yes, but also decentralized design is not enough on its own!
It’s entirely possible that all of Lemmy could be a sea of independent instances, that are all hosted on AWS because it’s cheap or easy. Or if even just the big ones run on AWS, sure my instance could be up technically, but there’s no content. And in either case we’d be in the same situation despite the federated design.
We need to make sure, as a community, that we maintain a diversity of tech stacks between the instances too!
Also I think technically, nit-pickily, Lemmy is federated and not decentralized. Because actual true decentralization actually doesn’t care where any instance is hosted. I’m sorry, I know…