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Interesting, I wonder how they’ll handle communities being decentralized.
Communities themselves are not really decentralized, are they?
@emberwit @Ghostalmedia well they are in the sense that any account from across the fedi can contribute to them. I just posted this topic from my single user mastodon instance
The individual communities, no, but where they are hosted is decentralized.
Might not be a big UX problem. If Apollo or RIF had their own instances, and defaulted the feed to “all,” not local, then the experience would probably feel similar to a lot of folks.
But Apollo’s instance might also have a million+ folks, so that could be a performance problem.
Kind of, in the sense that once populations booms, there could be many communities covering the same topic. Which has both upsides and downsides.
Since I've joined lemmy, I've been thinking about some kind of "community merging" feature.
A "meta community" would be able to "follow" other communities across the fediverse and posts from followed communities would show up in the "meta community's" feed. Posts from followed communities would remain on their original instances, or they could be duplicated to the meta community's instance.
There are a lot of details to work out, but I think this would add a lot more usability to lemmy and the fediverse as a whole
I think a good solution would be to let communities mirror other communities. If several instances have similar communities, each community could choose to mirror the other on their instance. But I am no programmer, so maybe it is more complicated than it seems.
I guess this will be sorted out by itself, as people will be joining the most active communities regarding a topic - at one point the least actice communities of a topic will "die" out.