To reduce centralization. The more spread out things are the less vulnerable Lemmy is to a major loss if an instance shuts down and the less power any single admin has.
[email protected] helps. You can also post about them in related communities if the community rules allow and communities can partner with each other to link in community sidebars.
It turns out that the idea that you can move freely around the Fediverse was a lie - or at least, it is something that isn’t fully implemented yet.
I don’t think account mobility was ever an expectstion until recently, just that you could access all federated instances from any instance. I can ‘move freely’ with my account to any federated instance without needing separate logins.
I have limited agreement with your thoughts on defederation. The ability to defederate is important because there are instances that host csam and other illegal things. That content federating across all instances could put some instance owners in legal jeopardy and is undesirable even without legal considerations. Beyond filtering illegal content and large amounts of spam I prefer to curate my own experience. That’s why I chose lemm.ee. It’s a general purpose instance with a good admin that is generally well moderated. Lemm.ee doesn’t tend to cause problems for other instances so few instances have defederated from it and it basically only defederates instances that host illegal material or copious amounts of spam.
Not everyone wants that same experience though. The amount of political posts and doom posting can get overwhelming and depressing. Constantly seeing posts that challenge or attempt to invalidate parts of you identity gets exhausting. More controlled and curated instances can be a nice break from the full experience. Anytime I’ve interacted with beehaw communities it has been pleasant and much less stressful than the general lemmy community. I can understand why some users prefer to stay in that environment for all of their time on lemmy. This is ultimately recreation, users should enjoy their experience here. The same with blahaj, it’s nice to sometimes see content concerning minority identities without there being the same debates in the comments. When I interact with communities there and see how they talk about things I learn and grow as a person. Those discussions wouldn’t be possible on a less controlled instance.
The problem is that Lemmy is already small and niche. I don’t want my account or communities to go poof one day because a small instance admin gives up or forgets about their project. I’ve actually seen users go through this several times.
I get the idea in theory, but in practice, it doesn’t end up panning out well.
Self hosting is a thing, sure, but a lot of people don’t at all want to do that.
In addition to splitting up communities to the point where you have to follow multiple of the same community in different instances to get more than a slice of the content.
Avoid making new communities on Lemmy.world
…and avoid the ones from .ml instances. There’s usually a non-ml equivalent for almost every community.
However, the alternatives are often on .world or shitjustworks.
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To reduce centralization. The more spread out things are the less vulnerable Lemmy is to a major loss if an instance shuts down and the less power any single admin has.
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[email protected] helps. You can also post about them in related communities if the community rules allow and communities can partner with each other to link in community sidebars.
The same way you do any other instance just be there for the mods. Update it regulary even if you are the only one to make the instance updating it.
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I don’t think account mobility was ever an expectstion until recently, just that you could access all federated instances from any instance. I can ‘move freely’ with my account to any federated instance without needing separate logins.
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I have limited agreement with your thoughts on defederation. The ability to defederate is important because there are instances that host csam and other illegal things. That content federating across all instances could put some instance owners in legal jeopardy and is undesirable even without legal considerations. Beyond filtering illegal content and large amounts of spam I prefer to curate my own experience. That’s why I chose lemm.ee. It’s a general purpose instance with a good admin that is generally well moderated. Lemm.ee doesn’t tend to cause problems for other instances so few instances have defederated from it and it basically only defederates instances that host illegal material or copious amounts of spam.
Not everyone wants that same experience though. The amount of political posts and doom posting can get overwhelming and depressing. Constantly seeing posts that challenge or attempt to invalidate parts of you identity gets exhausting. More controlled and curated instances can be a nice break from the full experience. Anytime I’ve interacted with beehaw communities it has been pleasant and much less stressful than the general lemmy community. I can understand why some users prefer to stay in that environment for all of their time on lemmy. This is ultimately recreation, users should enjoy their experience here. The same with blahaj, it’s nice to sometimes see content concerning minority identities without there being the same debates in the comments. When I interact with communities there and see how they talk about things I learn and grow as a person. Those discussions wouldn’t be possible on a less controlled instance.
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Child Sexual Abuse Material.
Child sexual assault material, no you don’t want to google it.
Child porn. It’s the euphemism treadmill.
The problem is that Lemmy is already small and niche. I don’t want my account or communities to go poof one day because a small instance admin gives up or forgets about their project. I’ve actually seen users go through this several times.
I get the idea in theory, but in practice, it doesn’t end up panning out well.
Self hosting is a thing, sure, but a lot of people don’t at all want to do that.
It also leads to most sub instances being so small they’re effectively unmoderated
In addition to splitting up communities to the point where you have to follow multiple of the same community in different instances to get more than a slice of the content.
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