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So considering there’s a substantial push to get away from places like Reddit and Twitter, as an outsider I’m wondering how the fediverse is going to actually provide solutions to some already bad problems within higher resource platforms:

ADMIN/MOD ABUSE: Redditors are no strangers to mods/admins nuking comments, astroturfing, signal boosting/silencing, and so on. Doesn’t that problem just become worse in a federated system? As an example, a subreddit mod may ban users for whatever reason, but a lemmy instance admin could drag all their communities into their own drama if they choose to defederate, no? Losing access to entire instances instead of just one community/subreddit based on a power-tripping admin seems a big flaw. Am I missing something?

REPOSTING/X-POSTING: Reddit was already just the same tweets posted to like forty different subreddits, recycled weekly. On lemmy, there are now a handful of instances that contain virtually the same communities too. The lemmy.world/c/memes and lemm.ee/c/memes communities will post virtually the same content. And that’s just one. Aren’t feeds going to be overrun by duplicate posts in /All?

PRIVACY: I have no clue about this… are there extra security or privacy issues with something like lemmy?

SERVER ISSUES: This kinda goes without saying, but a small instance will already struggle to host even their own local users as traffic increases. Communicating across more and more instances is going to be extremely taxing. Access issues/desyncs seem like they’ll be inevitable. Doesn’t a federated system have more trouble scaling up than a centralized one because of this? How could small independently run servers keep up with exponential processing costs? Won’t this just squeeze out smaller instances? Add this to issues when instances choose to defederate, and you have two competing incentives: spreading out users to keep server stress low, and centralizing users to keep local engagement high. Isn’t this kind of a big hurdle?

Sorry for the wall of text- excited about lemmy in general but really have no idea about whether these are issues.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

I haven't been able to get into the "flow" of Lemmy to really enjoy it since joining within the last week but...

Reposting/X-Posting is the thing I'm most worried about. It is the thing that annoyed me most on reddit. Seeing the same post 2 or 3 times on the frontpage at the same time is obnoxious.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Ironically, that was one of the feature I actually really liked. Seeing the same post two or three times didn't really matter to me since if it was posted in different communities, there was a wider variety of responses and perspectives (or I could just scroll past it).

Also it let me discover new communities that I wasn't aware existed.

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

Are we talking about the same kind of post? I'm referring to stuff that doesn't have multiple points of view. Like cat pictures or w/e

[–] Fondots 5 points 1 year ago

Even with something like a cat picture, I'm on sites like reddit and Lemmy as much for the comments and conversation as I am for the actual content, getting shared to different communities/subs at different times means different people are seeing it, so different stories and trivia and jokes are being shared in the comments even though they're being inspired by the same picture.

And of course, the same picture of a cat being shared to r/aww will have a very different kind of conversation than the same picture shared to a different sub where the point is for people to do something like make up a fake backstory about the picture (not sure such a sub existed, but it very well might have) which would again be very different to if it were shared to r/catsStandingup (Cat.) And if it gets shared to PhotoshopBattles, that's another totally different thing entirely.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Well in these cases, I just scrolled past. It wasn't a common enough occurence for me.

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