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I found a major communication problem with public perception of Lemmy. they seem to think a community is tied to a particular instance (www.reddit.com)

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

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This is a big problem. It creates the illusion that /c/cats on one particular instance is the real /c/cats.

This is the root of re-centralization and it must be pulled out.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That's really interesting about the archive; it's surprisingly small. They must have combined repeated comments, which means there are about a dozen in total, along with some recycled Facebook memes. Now that I think about it, 2TB might be too big! ...I'm joking ;)

Just want to note that Voat was a right-wing hellhole by this point, and the vibe here is extremely different. I'd pulled out of Voat within a week, because the writing was on the wall; big wall, big writing. I'm curious what is making you feel that the Fediverse will be like Voat, because I'm not seeing it. I'm still new here, but it was really obvious on Voat, just a week in.

Now you have me worried that Reddit, in recent years, moved my Overton Window so far right that it no longer sticks out. Oh no.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The current design apparently depends on the ceaseless efforts of atlas-type unpaid volunteers with ultimate and unaccountable moderation powers and a "decentralized" system that heavily favour the biggest community on the biggest instance.

That plus a lot of hope. Just so much hope for the system to somehow not go in the direction of the gravity toward which it is built.

Lemmy is built with federation as an afterthought, decentralization as something to be overcome.