Communities on different instances about the same topic should have the option to essentially federate so a post on one appears on all of them and opening any of them shows you the comments from all of them. This way when lemmy.world is down its not a big deal because posting to any news community federates to all of the communities instead of barely having people see your post. Federation could be decided by the community mods and the comments can have a little “/c/communityname@instance.name” on it so you know which community the comment was originally posted on.
There are requests for this in the works. If I didn’t have almost 1000 comments I would find the links but there’s no search function for comments :/
Ah I found it!
https://lemmy.world/post/318115
Not something I’m interested in.
My instance aggressively defends the rights of trans folk and other minorities, so the moderators and the admins of any communities based on our instance will come down hard on transphobes and the like.
That’s just not true of most of the rest of the threadiverse though, which means that merging just wouldn’t work
Oh no someone has a different opinion than you REEEE permaban the “transphobic”.
Welcome to the bubble.
you are an example of why they’re so strict about it
No, then there is no point to Lemmy being federated at all.
Better to just have each community develop their own flavor on the same topic imo
I mostly agree with this, but I also think there should be some way of being able to collate the same 5 communities on 5 different instances under 1 view. I said this when I first came onto the Fediverse, but maybe having a tagging system for each instance would allow for both; users could look up instances with, say, a “news” tag and get every instance with that tag - and this way, the communities would still be separate and can develop differently from one another.
Good idea but this will lead to even more centralization if it’s decided by the instances who their communities federates with.
The top ones will federate and leave the small instances out of the loop. Or put demands on other instances they have to fulfill to be part of the community federation.
It all ends up similar to Reddit in the end. Maybe it’s unavoidable and we cant have properly decentralized now when it’s centralized.
