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> any hope of creating a community to rival reddit is going to be thrown out the window. I haven’t been following lemmy, can you elaborate on this? Isn’t the i
by jrflowers 3y ago
> any hope of creating a community to rival reddit is going to be thrown out the window.
I haven’t been following lemmy, can you elaborate on this? Isn’t the idea of blocking instances part of the point?
Like if I made “GoatseLemmy: Where Every Post Is Goatse” I wouldn’t expect content on it to be available for everyone without any input from admins that pay to run other servers.
- fariszr 3y agoWhy not? As long as people stick on topic, they should be able to post from other servers, that's the whole point of federation.
- starkparker 3y agoIt isn't, though. The point of federation is to have the technical ability to post and follow across compatible servers. The point is not to require every instance to accept posts and followers from every compatible server. If anything, that's the opposite of the point.
- fariszr 3y agoSure, what I'm saying is, its too early to do this. People have barely started migrating, and there is already infighting. Thats a problem because beehaw seems to be the largest with many established subreddit communities, which limits the usability of smaller servers.
- burnished 3y agoWhat gives you the impression this represents infighting? Genuinely, I think you will be relieved to read the announcement in TFA whenever it succeeds in loading for you; they just can't handle the moderating burden that the traffic from those servers brings, and given the almost completely unrestricted ability to create accounts in those instances it shouldn't be surprising. Beehaw would like more granular control but that isnt available (yet?), and they'd refederate once everything cooled down.
- epiccoleman 3y agoUm, hey, sorry but please expect a letter from my lawyer. That's my startup idea.
- jrflowers 3y agoMy Burning Man art installation is ruined!