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Lemmy Needs to Fix Its Community Separation Problem (popcar.bearblog.dev)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/8955176

I made a blog post on my biggest issue in Lemmy and the proposed solutions for it. Any thoughts on this would be appreciated.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You people just need accept the fact, that it is not “THE xyz community on Lemmy” but just “one of the xyz communities using Lemmy”.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

moves to Lemmy to avoid centralization

Y NO CENTRALIZATION?!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

But it's still kinda centralized. If the instance hosting your community goes down, you won't get comments and posts from users from other instances, so the community dies.

Yeah, one instance going down doesn't kill the entire network, but it mostly kills the community.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The community belongs to a website, yes. You're just subscribing to it remotely.

Lemmy is decentealized in the same way the web is decentealized. You can't get articles from Blog 13705 if blog13795.net goes offline. That doesn't make the web not decentealized.

At the end of the day, the whole fediverse is a bunch of independent websites hosting copies of other websites' content. They're not cloud communities, they're mirrors.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

That’s not what being centralized is