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1 year agoI’m still learning but share your concern.
I also think there’s different dimensions to the growth too. A lemmy server such as programming.dev may have many communities which become popular and it’s primary task is to be the home to those communities and federate that out to the wider community.
At the same time it has to pull in any random community that even a single user on that server wants to look at and store it.
The server that is home to programming discussion could buckle under the load of too many posts to /c/funny. It doesn’t seem right. They are different responsiblities.
That’s basically it. They keep control. They can charge subscriptions. They own it. Not you.