seeCseas

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[–] seeCseas 3 points 2 years ago

I came here to laugh, not to cry about the state of the world :')

[–] seeCseas 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

is lemmy already fracturing so I can’t see stuff on beehaw? Doesn’t this kind of defeat the purpose?

I'd say it's both a feature and a bug of the Fediverse!

Everyone is free to start their own server, just as everyone is free to splinter off. This means no central authority deciding what you can see and can't see.

In the ideal state, there would be multiple servers with the same discussion topic (eg a few "news" communities would exist on beehaw, lemmy.world, lemmy.ml etc). Each of them will slowly take a different direction. This is already kinda happening on reddit (news, worldnews, neutralnews, etc), but here it should happen across servers.

Beehaw is a bit of a weird animal, they don't like having so many users all at once because it leads to moderation issues. I think they should have just appointed more mods, but they decided on the last-resort option of splintering off temporarily. They really value having a small,close-knit community - they don't allow people to start their own communities (the subreddit equivalent), downvotes aren't allowed, etc, so discussion is only focused on a few main channels.

As a new user, i think it's fine for you to be on lemmyworld! It has the largest variety of content here, although the pace of new content is still slow because lemmy has 1% of 1% of reddit's userbase. Feel free to contribute!

The takeaway for now is, you can see beehaw posts but can't really participate. I personally found it useful to block beehaw communities so I can see the activity elsewhere. The current default lemmy sort isn't very good - I would try sorting by Hot or New.

[–] seeCseas 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

the best way of protesting against chores!

[–] seeCseas 3 points 2 years ago

The main concern with centralizing is once you have lemmy instances become centralized you arrive at the same position as reddit. What’s to say the largest lemmy instances won’t hold their instance hostage? Sell it to a corporation who liquidates it for the data and sees running the instance as a loss? Start defederating or limiting federation with other instances with malicious motives? If there is dozens of these larger instances, this will be easier to mitigate than the current handful of instances. It’s best if things are more decentralized, this is the goal of the fediverse after all.

This is definitely a valid concern but it's not a problem right now! With the user numbers currently, it's not monetizable. There are a few large instances poised to take up the load so even if one instance sold out, the rest would carry on!

[–] seeCseas 1 points 2 years ago

haha that's actually kinda funny!

[–] seeCseas 2 points 2 years ago

maybe the article was written from someone who's 200 years old!

[–] seeCseas 1 points 2 years ago

good call, thank you!

[–] seeCseas 5 points 2 years ago

thank you, this blew up beyond my expectations!

[–] seeCseas 1 points 2 years ago

some people enjoy their hobbies! but like you said that's rare!

[–] seeCseas 4 points 2 years ago

that's life summed up in a sentence!

[–] seeCseas 2 points 2 years ago

This is a really well-thought-out post. You have some really good ideas in there. Would you like to suggest some ideas the sub can do?

[–] seeCseas 1 points 2 years ago

Thanks! You definitely have some good ideas. Like you said, once it gets big enough we can think about splitting it, but we're nowhere near that threshold - as a comparison, the reddit equivalent has hundreds of thousands of subscribers, and it's being used for awareness posts/memes as well as advocacy (talking about strikes that are happening). I don't know what a good threshold is, but we're nowhere near large enough yet - we barely have 1 page of content, so there's room for everything.

In the meantime, feel free to keep posting advocacy/action ideas!

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