Is Federating Magazines/Communities/etc a possibility in the future?
(Quite new to this, so if this is a dumb question, please beat me up gently ;))
ie; Instance 1 and Instance 2 decide to be closely federated, and share common mod and server rules and expectations. /m/fediverse share content with each other between the instances. Instance 3 wants to join, in as well, but does not share mod and server rules, so is not allowed to join in (contribute mods to the magazine really) but are able to read and post normally to @fediverse@instance1 or @fediverse@instance2 etc etc. kind of a consortium of server owners collaborating more closely with like minded servers and cutting down on duplicated magazines.
Perhaps this is overly complicated, I just like the concept of a distributed, mirrored service with redundancy in the event of an issue (ie server owner decides to quit, data center has outages, malicious actors damaging infrastructure, etc. I guess something like usenet was like in the early internet?
While it would be nice to be able to amalgamate some communities, I think a lot of the issue stems from redditors jumping into a server and immediately trying to recreate all of their favorite subs before understanding federation and searching to see if similar subs exist elsewhere (or considering if there are enough users to justify the existence of their niche sub when all of the communities are still relatively small and their content might fit in general communities that would benefit from more users.)
This is especially exacerbated because Kbin had a huge surge in growth while federation wasn’t working and so it’s users were relatively isolated from the established communities.
I imagine over time people will mostly conglomerate to the more active boards across different instances.