lucas

You are now banned from r/pyongyang

100%. It appears to me this new community is already serving the purpose of the old one!

Never thought about how this relates to net neutrality. Reddit was kind of becoming a "common carrier" for information, but as a centralized source it's in their interest to filter content for money's sake. Here in the fediverse the communities (and their data) are cloned but constantly updated across many independently owned servers. So no one server owner can ever really steer the discourse. We just need an official way to migrate a community in the case an instance goes down/stops meeting the needs of the community.

I'd like to be a pirate, it's a pirate's life for me

Thanks for hosting!

Exactly. Bring all that discussion and content over here, then we are actually in control of it. We can't expect anything to change when Reddit thinks there's no viable alternative.

Nice. I think the Fediverse is the way to go for communities like this.

Love to see this community here. IWNDWYT!

I feel like that could lead to issues as well. The best way for the fediverse to work is users spread out across many small/medium instances.

Certainly feels like there's some 'ignorance is bliss' to it. Folks don't want to hear something is an ad because it takes away the illusion that their feed is in their control. And they don't want to feel gullible.

Love that idea. Servers could distinguish if they want to be a general 'home instance' for users, and those that opt in could communicate with each other and push accounts around as necessary. Servers could calculate their likelihood to accept a new incoming account based on some heuristics the admin could set, with sensible defaults. That way the system would self-balance itself as new instances appear and as mature ones reach capacity. Of course for that to work there would have to be some central authority keeping track of account locations for login purposes.

Spreading out is definitely the way to make this thing work. I'm sure there is more that can be implemented to help with federation speed, making sure you have all comments, etc. Those are solved with a monolith instance, but as we see you need a monster server to do it. I think instances averaging less than a few thousand users each will be the way to move forward.