That’s no different than Reddit. You want to follow a hobby on Reddit, you need to find the specific community that is most popular even though there could be thousands.
Danc4498
joined 2 years ago
If you’re talking about communities existing on each instance, ie lemmy.world/c/photography and lemmy.ml/c/photography then yeah, those won’t sync. But the users need to coalesce around once of those, say the lemmy.ml one, then when you go to lemmy.world/c/photography@lemmy.ml. The duplicate communities is no different than Reddit having 2 similar subreddits.
Ya'll are basically talking about how Lemmy works already. You have c/photography on Lemmy.ml. And while you're logged into Lemmy.world, it's c/photography@lemmy.ml.
You subscribe on Lemmy.world and comment on Lemmy.world and everything is synced. If Lemmy.ml is down, you can still see everything and comment from Lemmy.world and itll sync once Lemmy.ml is back online.
I think the user's just need to coalesce around a single instance's community and let the other ones go away. Don't treat each instance's version of a community the same. Subscribe to the one that has the most users (or best mods) and let the other ones die.
It's no different than reddit having multiple subreddits with similar themes. r/xbox vs r/xboxone for instance. If I'm looking to subscribe to one, I will look at the subreddit with the most users and ignore the other one.
Musk's interference to protect Russia allowed Russian attacks on Ukrainian cities, and resulted in the deaths of civilians including children - Zelensky advisor.
2-3 monolithic instances is probably inevitable for general usage. And also, this is 100% better than a single privately controlled corporation.
There are also niche instances where specific communities may fit better on than the general instances.
And also, if the 2-3 monolithic instances start fucking around, there are plenty of alternate instances we can migrate to.