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Federation is pretty cool (lemmy.ubergeek77.chat)

submitted 2 years ago by ubergeek77@lemmy.ubergeek77.chat to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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I noticed my feed on Lemmy was pretty dry today, even for Lemmy. Took me a while to realize lemmy.ml has been going up and down all morning, and isn't federating new posts.

But, since this is all still federated, I can still create and read posts on other instances while I wait. Even this one! Any other service would just be unavailable completely right now.

I do miss the larger communities on lemmy.ml - asklemmy, memes, and I really wanted to watch the reddit fallout on /c/reddit. Maybe I'll look around for some good replacements for those. Open to suggestions!

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[-] harbo@lemmy.world 39 points 2 years ago

The only problem with federation is duplicate communities, and I don’t even see that as being necessarily a bad thing. I’ll subscribe to multiple communities for the same thing and if, over time, I end up getting annoyed with some of them I’ll just unsubscribe.

[-] PotjiePig@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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[-] Debo@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

We have to solve the content curation problem IMO. If we all love lemmy.world or sh.itjust.works and post 1000's of hours of content to either and one of them just "shutters" the server then all that content is GONE. Or, am I missing something about how all this works?

If we want to "join" servers we need some type of content migration tool that allows the user to determine where their content is actually "hosted".

We may see individual servers for heavy content creators as they'll want some way to ensure that all of the federated servers can continue to access their content right?

[-] impulse@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

It's not necessarily a bad thing, but especially with the amount of news users (and subs) migrating from Reddit there is a certain potential for chaos for sure.

However, for me the pros of this approach still outweigh the cons as, like you said, it also provides more choice with which community you want to interact.

Like chess, but are a bit tired of googling en passant? Just find a community, that is more focused on the game on a different instance.

[-] Yodadidas@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

You have a large pool of content to START with. Then you can filter the junk. This how you harvest the crops - everything at once then cherry pick, and this is how you prepare a lemonade - get a whole lemon and, queeze the juice out and the skin remains.