Who cares? Isn't the point of it being federated that you can join whatever instance and have the same experience (ignoring of course whatever that particular instance is doing for modrration)
Except one fatal flaw for Lemmy. Communities are centralized on servers and the default view is "one community on one server" instead of "that community on every server".
Result, you can't just go to /c/books on your server and expect to see every /c/books on every server.
Even worse, if you post on /c/books on your server, it will not be seen by most Lenny users, by design.
Instead, you have to find the biggest /c/books community and go to that server
For me, this kills all hope and enthusiasm I had for Lemmy. This turns Lemmy into "Reddit with extra steps".
If this isn't rectified before the form of Lemmy is finalized, this will kill Lemmy for the same reason Digg and Reddit are dead and dying.
The power to silently choke Lenny is in a few hands and I promise to you they will squeeze when the time is right for them.
This is for the moderator's convenience. For the dev convenience and the server owner convenience.
We all know a fractured community cannot transplant itself without breaking apart. There is power is centralization, communities are centralized.
We need to take the power of moderators and give it to the user's. Moderation must be made communally and democratically.
This means moderation is something that happens in the client. It is something the user subscribe to. That the user can change at will.
You said that as a lemmy.ml user in reply to a user from another instance, and I'm replying to you from yet a third. It doesn't seem to be restricting any of us to our own instance
Is the "problem" you're talking about that any instance may have it's own community by the same name as another instance's? That's not a bug.
That lets anyone say "I don't like that community for this thing I like, I shall set up my own on this other instance"
The vibe can vary pretty drastically from instance to instance, regardless of federation. Ultimately in the bigger communities it doesn't matter at all though
Uhhhhhh... Well all of them are charming in their own ways, and reddit had a lot less charm most of the time. In my opinion. Blahaj.zone is terrific! Solarpunk is too!
I mean, no one instance is really going to be that viable a competitor on its own, isn't the entire point of fedi platforms that what you get is an amalgamation of all (or at least most, after considering defederation) of them?
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Startrek.website seems to be run by the same people who ran r/startrek, some of the most ridiculous, petty, power-tripping stereotypes of neckbeard reddit mods you could find. Not that familiar with the other two, but lemmy.world seems to be run by reasonable people just trying to do their best.
Hardly just my experiences. Zero quality control when it came to content, the sub was often full of reposted random tweets from bit-part actors from the 90's, often not even talking about ST, or trashy shit like playing fuck/marry/kill with the cast of DS9, but at a certain point it got turned into unpaid PR for CBS/Paramount, where you couldn't make even light-hearted jokes about any currently broadcast show. Everything and anything would be struct down with some "be constructive" rule that translated to toxic positivity and users functioning as little more than advertisers for the shows, that sub was basically a test bed for the enshittification of reddit as an advertising platform, and trying to discuss it with the mods just got you a bunch of smarmy smartarsery in return. They're pretty much every 90's stereotype of a ST fan running a chatroom.
If you looked at any of the other ST-related subs, you used to find no shortage of people with similar stories. I'm sure many of them were neckbeards in their own right who just raged against any and all new ST stuff, often with weird political bents, but given I'm not one of them and still got bullshit from them, I'm guessing a fair few of them had valid grievances too.