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lemmy.ml/c/piracy and lemmy.world/c/piracy do not show the same content. This a problem. (lemmy.ml)

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

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A user checking out one of these URLs does not want to filter only local post on that instance.

On all instances, this url should mean "show me all /c/piracy on all federated instances"

If you really mean /c/piracy only on that instance, then add something to the url.

The current convention breaks the most important aspect of federation and makes its vestigial appendage.

The current way has user asking question /c/piracy, but on which instance ?

So now they'll all join the same instance . You wouldn't post anywhere else since no one would every see it.

It's a recipe for centralization.

I think this is obvious to most users, were deal with "voat with extra steps" here

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[–] awdsns 3 points 1 year ago

Content is federated by default, it's how I'm reading your post in https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected] and not in https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy

What you propose and mean by "federated" (combining communities across instances by default) presents significant technical difficulties, because there is no central authority of existing communities across all Lemmy instances. Imagine someone sets up a new instance, and some user there creates a community "foo" and becomes its moderator.
Then this instance begins federating with another one, where a community "foo" created by a different user already exists. Which one is the "correct" one? Who is its moderator?