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How to fight division of the user base? (self.asklemmy)
submitted 1 year ago by sockenklaus to c/[email protected]
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If I understand Lemmy correctly, you can create duplicate communities on different instances. Isn't this kinda counter productive because this may lead to less user interaction in those communities, because the user base gets split up between competing communities.

Is there a way to fight this division of the (small) userbase or is this effect even desired because it leads to more tight knit communities on the different instances?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Consensus and democracy. Have the top twenty instances vote on decisions. Have an equal amount of votes per instance, say five individuals from each instance all vote.

Instances will of course be responsible for the needs and wants of their users and the goal of appeasing them, so it all feeds into the same goal of improvement.

A constitution which is edited and followed, might be of use for reference.