• interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Except one fatal flaw for Lemmy. Communities are centralized on servers and the default view is “one community on one server” instead of “that community on every server”.

    Result, you can’t just go to /c/books on your server and expect to see every /c/books on every server.

    Even worse, if you post on /c/books on your server, it will not be seen by most Lenny users, by design.

    Instead, you have to find the biggest /c/books community and go to that server

    For me, this kills all hope and enthusiasm I had for Lemmy. This turns Lemmy into “Reddit with extra steps”.

    If this isn’t rectified before the form of Lemmy is finalized, this will kill Lemmy for the same reason Digg and Reddit are dead and dying.

    The power to silently choke Lenny is in a few hands and I promise to you they will squeeze when the time is right for them.

    This is for the moderator’s convenience. For the dev convenience and the server owner convenience.

    We all know a fractured community cannot transplant itself without breaking apart. There is power is centralization, communities are centralized.

    We need to take the power of moderators and give it to the user’s. Moderation must be made communally and democratically.

    This means moderation is something that happens in the client. It is something the user subscribe to. That the user can change at will.

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      1 year ago

      The hell are you talking about, you are I are from different instances both talking to each other on a third instance lol.

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        1 year ago

        I think he’s talking about similar communities from different instances. Like “books” on lemmy.world is separate from “books” on lemmy.ml. So people will end up migrating to the larger one for more users to share with. I feel like it’s not a big deal since I can subscribe to all of them while being on a single instance.

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          1 year ago

          I know you agreed with me so don’t take it as arguing, but I don’t get this logic. If someone made “books” there’s nothing stopping people from making “readingbooks” with the exact same rules and content guidelines. The problem doesn’t go away.