Global namespace extremist. Defragment your communities!

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  • You can’t force collaboration

    You can. There’s always the lowest common denominator. If there’s a guy peddling viagra pills in the astronomy community, it’s clearly offtopic. Most mods would flag the post regardless of their political or ideological affiliation. That takes care of the obvious spam.

    • cooperation = advantage
    • noncooperation = no advantage nor disadvantage

    instances that have different views and rules on moderation

    And that’s ok. They will do as they always did. Hide posts, or users that violates their terms of service

    • cooperation = advantage
    • noncooperation = no advantage nor disadvantage

  • I 100% agree that what you suggest could be a valid usecase. However, from my subjective point of view, people are not using it that way. Let me present an example.

    There are 12 communities dedicated to Bitcoin in general. I can’t imagine 12 different points of view to discuss this topic from. Lemmy.ml somehow has 3, but 2 of them are completely empty.

    All of these are mere duplicates of each other. Let’s put the technical difficulties aside, and imagine we have a global namespace, and each instance just has it’s own mod team to which users would auto-subscribe (with an option to opt-out, or use a different list). Now we have more users seeing each other and being able to react to each other. Sure, that would put more strain on the individual mod teams, but, there could be a system in place to make it easier for them to cooperate. Two or more mod teams flagged a comment? Let’s auto-suggest it for the review to the rest.

    TLDR; More users, more mods, more fruitful discussion.

    Then, there are more niche communities. 1 dedicated just to the lightning network, 1 dedicated just to the markets, 1 probably dedicated to trolling and memes, 1 dedicated to bitcoin from the point of view of the united kingdom.

    All of these indicate their nature by the name.










  • Illegal where? You can’t run a federated system and keep it functioning AND legal everywhere all the time. There are 100s of jurisdictions, each of them constantly changing the rules.

    The fediverse is set up somewhere in the grey zone. It has all the disadvantages of decentralized system (has to communicate with untrusted peers), while also having all the disadvantages of centralized system (having childish admins, who are also bound by their local jurisdictions).

    The general direction is good, and the p2p ecosystem is better than a decade ago, but this is still not the final form, I’m afraid.

    I’m just glad that there’s a ton of money at stake in the big league, and large ISPs can’t afford to act like this most of the time.