Following the other thread (550 upvotes and 366 comments at the moment: https://lemmy.world/post/16211417), one of the complaints that people had what that some communities only exist on lemmy.ml and don't have alternatives on other instances.

Let's discuss this and see if we can organize together.

I suggest to have one topic per comment so that is is easier to discuss.

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[–] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

I think that's a really cool idea, but I am apprehensive about unforseen consequences. I have previously pointed out that the current structure of Lemmy creates a nice balance of power between admins, mods, and users. I think all three groups have enough agency and independence that they can follow their personal preference in the fediverse without infringing too much on the experiences of the others. In theory, as the network expands, stability will continue to increase.

I'm not sure about messing with that paradigm in order to implement something like what you're describing.

The question is: who else would be interested in hosting these fediverser-enabled instances?

So just to clarify what you mean. The fediverser-enabled instances would be current instances like lemmy.world, except with additional functionality to subscribe to unaffiliated communities?

Or they would be a totally new kind of instance with only independent communities? Sort of like lemmy.myserv.one (they don't host local content), except instead of subscribing to communities on other instances, you would be subscribing to standalone communities organized in some kind of lightly moderated community list.

[–] rglullis@communick.news 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Fediverser works as an auxiliary service. Any admin can install it and set it up to run alongside the Lemmy backend.

Personally, I don't like the idea of having instances that are home to users and communities at the same time. It is the source of endless issues around identity. I think that a lot of the centralization around LW would be avoided if people could create communities outside of their own "home" instance, and I don't think that "just create an account on multiple instances" is an acceptable workaround.

[–] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Makes a lot of sense, I have to agree with you that creating multiple accounts is not acceptable. Most of the people already here don't mind it obviously, but in terms of future growth that's a big hurdle that we need to figure out.

I'm definitely interested in the concept and I would certainly advocate for SJW to give it a shot in the future and see how it is.

That's a very interesting blog post you linked. Lots of interesting tangents which I'm not gonna go down. But I mainly agree about corporations monetizing identity in the modern age. But I don't think it applies to the fediverse, because instances are non-profit. And quite frankly, I don't see the harm in playing to people's sense of community and identity in order to lure them in. It seems to me that your vision is technically efficient, but maybe lacks some of the charm that Lemmy currently has.

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 3 points 5 months ago

I think that’s a really cool idea, but I am apprehensive about unforseen consequences.

Well there are a few that are easy enough to forsee and it would make me wary of doing it myself. I think the current system works OK, but I am interested to see how it works out.