This is a big problem. It creates the illusion that /c/cats on one particular instance is the real /c/cats.
This is the root of re-centralization and it must be pulled out.
I think part of the issue is that all the different Lemmy and kbin instances are trying to be Reddit themselves. By which I mean there are a bunch of instances with no focus. They’re all “kitchen sink” instances, each with their own Politics, Tech, Cats, etc.
Lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, kbin.social, fedia.io. All of them are generic reddit alternatives, but the real reddit alternative is the amalgamation of subscriptions from multiple more focused instances.
Startrek.website is a great example of the opposite: it’s an instance focused on one topic, where some people will want to sign up as a user and others will want to just subscribe to one of their three (!) boards from their own instance. They don’t need their own Politics topic, users on the site that care about it will subscribe to a politics topic from another instance. The startrek admins and mods only have to care about their one focus.
My ideal fediverse feed would be pulling individual topics from a few dozen more focused instances instead of one generalist instance. I think that’s what’s going to end up happening.
There are 3 instance for *.nz, lemmy.nz, no.lastname.nz and feddit.nz
@[email protected] and I (no.lastname.nz) have been workin together so we don’t overlap with nz based communities, with Dave concentrating on general NZ communities and I’m concentrating on more environmental type communities (Wildlife/Outdoors/Trees[therapeutic use based])
We probably need more collaboration for smaller communities, but there will always be different takes on topics and moderation.
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