Beehaw is the next-largest Lemmy instance after lemmy.ml. They've already defederated themselves from lemmygrad.ml for ~10 months

https://beehaw.org/post/443376

  • PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them]
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    1 year ago

    Federation is a key aspect to overcoming the network effect. Unless we sieze the monopoly platforms at gunpoint, it is one of the very few things which has made an impact over the past couple decades.

    It is certainly not the panacea many people make it out to be, though.