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I made a blog post on my biggest issue in Lemmy and the proposed solutions for it. Any thoughts on this would be appreciated.

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[–] 0x1C3B00DA@kbin.social 16 points 10 months ago (17 children)

Go for the most active one

There isn't one "most active one" because federation isn't perfect and every instance sees a different number of users/posts.

The people on the other, smaller, communities will find out about the main hub and subscribe to it as well.

You can't guarantee that. If they are on a smaller instance, their instance may not be aware of the larger community/instance.

I think decentralized systems are much better than centralized systems, but they're inherently more difficult. Also, your solution (everyone eventually just uses the same community) isn't decentralized. My proposal, which the third solution in the article is based on, enhances decentralization by allowing duplicate communities to exist but consolidate the userbase and discussion.

[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

There isn’t one “most active one” because federation isn’t perfect and every instance sees a different number of users/posts.

Number of users is pretty similar in my experience, with an average difference between 2 and 10 users.

[–] 0x1C3B00DA@kbin.social 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Cool. I'm glad you're getting a fairly smooth experience, but that hasn't been my experience or others'. I've seen posts with only a few comments but on their home server they have whole comment trees that I didn't see. Vote counts can be around 10-20 on one server and greater than 100 on another.

[–] Blaze@discuss.online 2 points 10 months ago

The few last weeks were rough because of the 19.1 mess.

Federation should be working smoothly from now on.

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