Seeing a big “politics” community in both lemmy.ml and lemmy.world just confuses me as to which I should be subscribing to and I don’t really want to subscribe to both.
Guess this is just a downside of federated instances? There’ll never just be one “/r/politics” on Lemmy?
The upside of this is that if you don’t like how a particular community is being moderated, you can follow a different community about the same topic
Yes it is annoying. And you have to create a new account on each instance to interact.
That is inherent with the decentralized nature of instances. Hopefully with all the new dev attention we’ll get community grouping and account linking to make it a bit another. But if you don’t like the power consolidation from centralized systems this is the solution, warts and all.
I’d like to point out what just happened to !android@lemmy.world.
It was closed and migrated to another instance explicitly to keep things from being “spread out”.
It also happens that the instance it was moved to has extremely overbearing moderation that effectively prevents actual discussion. It’s so “curated” that everything is segregated into hyper specific feeds, everything except “official” news is removed, and no one is contributing because of the overbearing rules (no questions, no memes, no “rants” i.e. don’t make opinion posts).
It’s controlled by the “experienced” moderation team from /r/Android, that subreddit that would get like one or two posts a day that weren’t removed. It was strangled. We are supposed to defer to it this “experienced” team, hence why the lemmy.world instance has been locked. Now that instance sits pretty as having thousands of subscribers, and that will hurt the growth of smaller android groups because people gravitate towards the biggest ones and the second biggest one on lemmy.world is locked.
In essence, forced centralization. This is exactly what federation was supposed to prevent. Subverted in less than a two weeks since those communities formed.
I think in that case the “forced” centralisation is purely constructed. There are no mechanisms preventing somebody from creating an android community in their own instance and federating it with lemmy.world. Even if !android@lemmy.world is permanently locked, that fact isn’t really a barrier to entry for another android community to pop up, just that that community was able to establish a subscriber base over time but I don’t see why another android community couldn’t do the same given some time, especially if the available android communities at the moment are locked and restricted.
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1113
Once this lands it’ll be all the positives and none of the downsides, so, meh.
