

Is LW a dumpster fire? No. Not at all. You’d notice it if it were.
But it is slow to upgrade, has some serious lag in federating with many instances, and represents a conceptual problem for decentralized social media by being a large, central entity in the network.
Like, if LW disappeared tomorrow, something like 25% of users and 40% of active communities would just blip out.
Can you? I… I don’t actually think that’s possible. Or, at least, it wasn’t the last time I played around with community creation.