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submitted 1 year ago by favrion@lemmy.ml to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml

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Why do the instances keep going down? It makes me think that this is not a reliable social network, but the alternatives are not as good.

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[–] Syl@jlai.lu 48 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can connect other communities from small instances, that's the point of the fediverse.

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This should be put in large letters on the join lemmy site so people can understand the point of the fediverse...

[–] Mereo@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Yup. A month ago, I was consumed as hell about Lemmy. I thought I needed to create on account on each instance.