• Blaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyzOP
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    1 year ago

    I think that’s one of the issues that the rest of the instances are facing to appear as trustful as LW. LW admins have a long established reputation and experience managing Fediverse services, and provide very good transparency and a large team.

    Other instances are usually nowhere close to that (some will be in the future I hope). The question I usually raise when someone start promoting their instance is “how many admins do you have?´What happens if you run under a bus tomorrow (hopefully you’ll stay safe of course)? Is there a back up plan in place?”

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, longevity and name recognition are why I went with sdf.org. They’ve been running many-user services for decades, even if the Lemmy service is pretty new.

      ETA: they’ve been around since BBSes. I’m on a wicked nerdy old-school geek instance, and I love my local communities.