That’s actually not true, right? https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/global-co2-emissions-from-transport-by-sub-sector-in-the-net-zero-scenario-2000-2030

In 2019 there are 6.08 Gt from road vehicles compared to the 0.87 Gt from shipping. That’s just overwhelming.

Nah, I think they’re just being mass-created. No one’s actually spamming anything so far. You can see so on this directory of instances: https://the-federation.info/platform/73

If you scroll around you’ll find some that have like 10k or 20k users and 11 posts at most.

I’ve been thinking of hosting my own instance for myself, but I was wondering if you’d noticed any oddities! I’ve heard of some bugs that occur when interacting cross-instance. Also stuff about content being out of sync, which I notice currently with lemmy.ml from my current instance (lemmy.world).

I think there’s a good mechanism to keep that from happening given that you can always just spin up your own instance or join a different one and still be federated with every other instance of interest.

That current state of affairs (people having content on a multitude of instances) should keep that from happening, since a bad actor would need to capture sufficient content as to have the only instance worth visiting.

I can’t foresee myself years from now having a problem making a new account on some-new-lemmy.place in under 3 minutes and continuing on my merry way.

Or at least that’s how it seems to me.

The hurdle to that is much greater here since there’s a common protocol adopted by multiple open source projects (of which Lemmy) which allows interoperability. If a profit-driven group would try to capture it, people could move instances/use a fork/use a different but similar activitypub project like kbin, etc.

At least I think that’s correct? It seems to me there are multiple lines of defense which each have a good amount of redundancy.

It works just the same as the web site! You can search or browse/scroll through local communities, subbed ones, or “all” (from all federated instances that are subbed to by anyone on your instance if I understand correctly).