Do you know any Lemmy instances not federated with other ones, living by themselves? Do you know any interesting or creative use case for a not federated instance?

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[–] AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 24 points 7 months ago (4 children)

I didn't think your question is as absurd as everyone is acting like it is. It's absolutely a silly thing to do, but I think a lot of the arguments against doing so would also apply to Mastodon, and wasn't it revealed that that Trump's garbage dump was running defedded Masto?

If you find one, I assume there will be many more terrible choices beyond just using Lemmy, and it's not somewhere you'll want to be.

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 11 points 7 months ago

Why is it a silly thing to do? A non-federating lemmy instance is just another content aggregator site like Reddit.

In many ways, it's a better experience than federated Lemmy. It's just harder to recruit members.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago

Well now hang on. What if you were in 8th grade, and started your own Lemmy instance, with no outside sources, and then invite all your classmates? And then all 30 of you have a blog and you all post individual blog posts.

Seems like a very specialized use of it, and I'm not sure if teens today would be interested in that......but you COULD.

[–] Orbituary@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Federation didn't create lemmy.