I’m a male, 25 yo software developer. Admin of lemy.lol instance.
It is about power. If they have more than 50% of the users, then all other instances should comply with their changes and obey them. If they don’t, then they’ll be blocked by more than half of the users. No instance owner will take this risk.
I’m trying to explain you that you don’t really need to own something to own it. If you have enough power, you have it already.
Wait why is “dubvee.org” defederated from my instance? Interesting…
Interesting 🤔 Maybe lemmy.zip’s behaviour is suitable for us too. Their description is “A Lemmy community for everyone, with a focus towards tech, PCs, and gaming”.
Do you think serving images from torrent would work? This can be done easily in the browser with Webtorrent, but I think it might be a bit problematic in mobile applications (maybe the image_proxy endpoint could come in handy here for a hybrid solution).
If it is in the roadmap, I can add this feature to the web UI as a start. Because it makes perfect sense :)