476
submitted 2 months ago by Peter_Arbeitslos@feddit.org to c/memes@lemmy.ml
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] Peter_Arbeitslos@feddit.org 2 points 2 months ago
[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I think it's healthy for the fediverse to have similar communities on different instances, because if we centralize, it basically becomes reddit, which means moderation and censorship are at the whims of whoever owns the only place people go.

I'd also like to give a shout-out to sopuli.xyz/c/memes for having a popular memes community too.

[-] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I think it’s healthy for the fediverse to have similar communities on different instances, because if we centralize, it basically becomes reddit, which means moderation and censorship are at the whims of whoever owns the only place people go.

💯

See also this blog post discussing this issue and some of the proposed improvements: https://popcar.bearblog.dev/lemmy-needs-to-fix-its-community-separation-problem/

I like their proposed solution #3, but it is somewhat hampered by the DNS-centric model of ActivityPub. I hope that one day something like this proof-of-concept of making AP content-addresable (which i found via this post about "How decentralized is Bluesky really?") will be widely adopted and make instances less important.

But even without such a major change as moving to content addressability, that blog's proposed solution #3 (simply letting communities "follow" other communities) would let readers pick which moderation they like without posters needing to manually cross post to reach everyone: If communities A and B could mutually follow eachother, posts would by default appear on both but could be independently removed from either. 🤔

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

That sounds like a pretty cool solution. I don't have a good mental picture for how that would work on the technical side, but anything that does behind-the-scenes work like that for new users is probably worth considering.

[-] Tenthrow@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I completely agree

this post was submitted on 22 Feb 2025
476 points (100.0% liked)

Memes

49995 readers
724 users here now

Rules:

  1. Be civil and nice.
  2. Try not to excessively repost, as a rule of thumb, wait at least 2 months to do it if you have to.

founded 6 years ago
MODERATORS