There are a large number of unanswered questions about the Fediverse. I don’t just mean questions that users may have, but questions for which no suitable answer exists yet. Some are extremely abstract and existential like “will the Fediverse survive the next decade?” Other questions are very concrete like, “What is the copyright status of a federated post?” or “What are the moral implications of federating content that may be harmful or recording a crime?”
I wonder, for those of you who stay up nights thinking about the Fediverse, which question is the most important to you?
I’ll never stop wondering why this guy was trying to not poop for 3 days.
That mystery still keeps me up at night sometimes. Looks like that account got deleted so it will probably remain unanswered.
And it coincided with the small scale mutiny by Wagner against Putin.
Did it also coincide with Hajj?
God, what a wonderful thread that was. I’ve decided to follow and star @mizu@lemmy.world so I can follow up on their future exploits.
Sadly, it doesn’t appear that they’ve posted in quite some time. Hopefully they’ll come out of hiding one day and ask more ridiculous questions.
It seems they deleted their account. But yeah that thread was really funny, the responses were good too
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Scalability. Federation adds overhead that increases as the number of instances increases. It is unclear to me when we will hit a wall but it’s probably not far off.
How will we pay the bills. Some instances get enough donations to pay server costs but none get enough to pay for staff or developers.
Both of those are only really problems if the fediverse grows, which it hasn’t for a while now. But that could change at any moment.
Might just be a different ratio of people to involvement to infrastructure that scales.
Who is actually funding lemmy.ml?
China
Can it run Doom?
“Lemmy Plays Doom”.
Doom runs for 0.5 seconds and the video is uploaded to the LPD community.
Most upvoted action in the comments after a day gets applied to the game and the next 0.5s of gameplay video is uploaded to a new post.
Repeat until WR is achieved.Might need some moderator discretion to normalise comments to in-game actions (or fuck it, send it to an LLM)
If the current leading theory of dark matter being a fundamental particle means that there were “two big bangs” why would the dark big bang have to appear second?
Bro.
When will the amount of spam and astroturfing outpace the glacial development of moderation tools and destroy the whole thing?
Will it last?
That’s always been my concern. I’ve seen a lot of great alternatives come up over the years, some last a few years, but some also have lasted a couple months. I think the Fediverse as a concept and as an idea will last a lot longer than anything that branches off from it. So even if Lemmy dies or KBin goes or something else. There will always be a Fediverse and something will come off from it that will continue.
If it’s so decentralized, where are all the local communities? I know, I know, it needs to get bigger, but still. The lack of niche and local communities and even localized instances is a major weakness.
