If I was logged into several instances at once in the client and seeing the composite feed and then could choose instance when replying or posting (with some set default, like from: field in e-mail clients) lemmy.world could ban piracy all it wants and it’d still be in my feed without me having to leave it or change instances.
The liftoff app has the ability to show multiple accounts across multiple instances.
Also… Lemmy.world has/will become the default at this point in time. When you eventually get big enough you even up having to cater for the “laws”.
Are they defederating from instances that are neutral as well? Or defed’ing from the privacy instances?
It’s not the first instance that has done something because of legal concerns about content from other instances. Many have already defederated from lemmynsfw.com because of that.
If you defederate from porn because of legal reasons you might as well be a private instance. Porn is allowed in every country bar a few on earth, and users even have the ability to turn off all NSFW content via their profile. Adult content is the easiest to solve for.
But that is just porn and I understand your point. At the end of the day, any instance is allowed to connect with whomever they want. Regardless of reasoning.
We had a few communities on Reddthat that were blocked on an instance level by hacking the database. After it subscribes between two instances you remove the db connection and it tricks Lemmy and doesn’t re-subscribe.
Within a month, third party applications will have multi account auto creation features with syncing of community subscriptions or abilities to connect directly into the communities that are siloed.
The entire point of federated social media is that you can swap instances if you don’t agree with policies. That’s the whole point of Lemmy!
All lemmy needs is to allow us to export/import our sub and block lists to make it easy tbh. Then it’ll be purrfect.
yeah I’d say user management across instances is the biggest flaw in the fediverse right now. Mastadon has made decent progress in that area, but it’s still imperfect.
A lot of the benefits of federation are weakened by the fact that it’s a pretty huge PITA to change instances
There should be an option to see all posts on our feed from all our instances. Then when commenting choose the instance from which the comment has to be posted.
This needs to be done carefully. At the extreme you’re asking every instance for a list of posts from all instances. It could become something like a DOS. Having just a few accounts should be fine though. Or just asking one instance for “all” and others for “local”.
This is why you don’t join the popular instance. Eventually the shitbirds ruin it.
Yup, I joined the smallest of the bigger communities and it has worked out pretty well. I’ll probably need to leave eventually once it gets too big, but for now it works well.
Yup, I joined the smallest of the bigger communities
What does that even mean
When I joined, there were about three major instances, and the rest were quite a bit smaller (I.e. <50 users). So I picked the smallest of the big instances (I think it had 500 or so users).
Basically, I wanted more than 100 or so users to have a better chance of the admin being active enough to respond to issues, but I didn’t want to be with one of the top instances to avoid outages and whatnot.
If I was logged into several instances at once…without me having to leave it or change instances.
So you’re working around having to change instances by changing instances? Am I missing something?
