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On federation and fragmentation (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I’ve seen a number of posts stating that they are worried that multiple instances will have overlapping magazines, like “Technology“. It’s true this will happen. But I don’t think it is a problem.

One thing I’ve learned from Mastodon, and I think it will apply to kbin as well, is that you don’t need to post for EVERYBODY on the internet. At some point, there’s a number — 1000 people, 10,000 people, or 100,000 people — where there are enough users where you can have an effective community and a nice conversation, without being so big that everything goes to sh*t.

In real life, we don’t expect to know everybody. We interact with people close to us. Maybe, this is fine in a federated community as well.

And, of course, there is still the chance that post will get really popular and percolate through the fediverse, for example, into the multiple “Technology” magazines.

In sum, I think the fediverse model will build multiple, interlinked, smaller but sustainable communities. If all you want is “reach”, it won’t be for you. But I think it will be good if you want community.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It's not just about "having nice conversations". It's about staying informed. If I want to get international [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], etc. The same principle goes for topical stuff, like the Ukraine war, specific video games, and so on… Of course you could subscribe to all of them, but then you'd end up with a lot of repeated / duplicate threads in your subscriber feed. It also causes activity to be spread out, which causes activity to be lower overall because people feel like their community is not active anyway, so why bother?