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A centralized frontend and a decentralized backend seems great in theory, but I’m not quite sure that’s even possible without some one or some group owning the centralized frontend. And if one single entity controls the frontend, it defeats the purpose of decentralization. We want to avoid anyone person or group owning any part of the flow of our communication,

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Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
That’s why you make the backend available to all to develop a front end, but there’s a default option just called Lemmy that helps solve the indexing and getting people started issue. If the Lemmy default option becomes shit the data is still available and something else becomes the default option.

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- brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  I agree it gets complex for users. But pushing back a bit, wouldn’t we instead say:
  
  We could tell new users “Sign up on Lemmy.com and if you decide you ~~don’t like the UI~~ aren’t a pedophile just ~~choose an alternative and use the same credentials to sign in~~ make sure you start blocking.”
  
  I have in mind that the top blocked instances are pedo oriented. Also seems like it would create a liability issue for servers mirroring that content.
  
  Although it’s not a perfect solution to choose a default instance for new users, I do think it’s a powerful question to eliminate.
  
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  - Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Hosts could choose to host NSFW content or not, right now they have the exact same issue anyway so the current situation is no better…
    
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