Well, signed up on lemmy.world today since it seemed large and specifically wanted to read communities on beehaw too.
Should have waited another 12 hours to get it confirmed that it's never going to pan out
Lemmy Instances are already blocking each other
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#12Was this unexpected? Having instance-level control over federation is part of the point of federation.
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#13As if being a federated network wasn't enough of a hurdle for new users, now we have instances blocking each other already. Lemmy has a great chance achieving what mastodon couldn't, because its the community that matters, not specific users, but with instance blocking each other, any hope of creating a community to rival reddit is going to be thrown out the window.
Why are you calling for centralization from a federated service?
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#14As if being a federated network wasn't enough of a hurdle for new users, now we have instances blocking each other already. Lemmy has a great chance achieving what mastodon couldn't, because its the community that matters, not specific users, but with instance blocking each other, any hope of creating a community to rival reddit is going to be thrown out the window.
> Lemmy has a great chance achieving what mastodon couldn't
Why would you expect that? Don't Mastodon instances also routinely block each other?
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#15Honestly, isn't that fine ? It means that the community has control and not a singular company. Just important to never let any single instance get as big as a company.
The issue is this instance seems to be the largest, with many established subreddit on it.
Now people will have to split between multiple clones on other instances.
At least wait for people to settle in first!
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#16when i post on reddit, i can't see it from digg. reddit will fail
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#17As if being a federated network wasn't enough of a hurdle for new users, now we have instances blocking each other already. Lemmy has a great chance achieving what mastodon couldn't, because its the community that matters, not specific users, but with instance blocking each other, any hope of creating a community to rival reddit is going to be thrown out the window.
Why are you calling for centralization from a federated service?
Where did I call for centralization?
Re: Lemmy Instances are already blocking each other
#18As if being a federated network wasn't enough of a hurdle for new users, now we have instances blocking each other already. Lemmy has a great chance achieving what mastodon couldn't, because its the community that matters, not specific users, but with instance blocking each other, any hope of creating a community to rival reddit is going to be thrown out the window.
Reddit also bans subreddits, the difference here is that you have more than one option if you don't like the communities that your instance is banning.
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#19Is there simply a lack of intersection between folks who care about UX and those who care about distributed computing? (And haven’t been sucked into web3.)
I think this is rather common for open source, community-driven projects, and not specific to distributed computing.
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#20As if being a federated network wasn't enough of a hurdle for new users, now we have instances blocking each other already. Lemmy has a great chance achieving what mastodon couldn't, because its the community that matters, not specific users, but with instance blocking each other, any hope of creating a community to rival reddit is going to be thrown out the window.
> 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.
Why not? As long as people stick on topic, they should be able to post from other servers, that's the whole point of federation.