That's definitely an option. Other people might prefer to keep access to them.
Blocking at the personal level allows people to choose
Blaze
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Good point
Good luck defederating from lemmy.ml and losing, among others
There are alternatives that we've been trying to push (see the few posts on !fedigrow@lemm.ee ):
But network effect is still around.
Blocking seems enough for most people.
What I think would be better would be adding tagging and taking federation a step further. Every post needs a ‘tag’; we steal that part from mastadon. It can have many, but it needs at least one, say #politics in this example.
Tags also bring issues from a moderation perspective. Who can decide who can use tags to label which type content? Seems another way to have everyone spamming trending tags on all type of contents without control. I think tags work better on a microblog format than community format, where you can potentially reach out everyone following that community/tag much easily than crossposting each time.
As far as an abuse vector. Thats just hang wringing. IF your mods are that abusive for a large sub, you’ve got way bigger issues. Which, if it did ever happen, is something that “forking” would solve. Mod on a power trip? No problem. Fork the community.
I was more thinking about people wanting to ruin things by importing huge communities to small instances, consuming their space and resources, and making it confusing to people to know which one is the "legit" community.
And if you limit this feature to admins, then requesting communities is already possible from admins on most of the instances, so that covers the transfer. Fork/split (what is the difference, btw), as I said, can be done manually now.
Importing a community is the one use case remaining, but I see why it's not a priority for the Lemmy devs, there is bigger fish to fry at the moment (multicommunities for instance)
But then what prevents someone from cloning a community to 50 instances, or cloning 50 community to 1 instance? Seems like an easy abuse vector
Yes, they are not even American, are they?
We need… something like a “transfer, merge, fork, split” for communities.
People can do it currently. I've done it a few times, for all for cases. You just make an announcement on the community, or on !newcommunities@lemmy.world if you are splitting from a power tripping mod.
Yes, thank you
You’d know which communities are active
There is a weekly thread on !newcommunities@lemmy.world to promote active communities
Not sure I'm following you, should they not then advocate for Lemmy.zip to defederate? That would be more effective for them