Comment on Decentralization Scoring System
Snoopy@piefed.social 1 day ago
Very interesting idea, thank you :)
So for my feedback, i love your project and i can't wait to see where you will go. Great job :3
For me lemmy is still centered on lemmy.world and its biggest community doesn't help users to move as they will post where there are lot users to reach them.
For my self, I would add two layers for decentralization :
The ability to migrate
- account and its followers
- community : miror content and move it to another instance with its followers
- export a backup of a server in case of absent admins
- change software. The problem is the golden cage, we thould be able to migrate between lemmy > iceshrimp, mastodon > piefed...mostly between social network. I think nomadic identity can offer us an interesting solution.
culture diversities
For lemmy, i think content is still too western centric :
- If you reduce instances by spoken language as french, we only have 1 server, so we have a single point of faillure.
- If i count english content versus indian, chinese, arab, spanish...we are pretty far from being decentralized. And yes, we also need to note their countries regulation as our to get a clear overview.
AnonomousWolf@lemm.ee 20 hours ago
Thanks this is a great idea.
I like the simplicity of that current scoring system (only 4 metrics)
Perhaps the same metric can be used, but applied for different cultures and languages.
Eg Lemmy would score high in English, but not in French.
I’ll keep refining it and listening to input.
Snoopy@piefed.social 15 hours ago
Yes culture and language should be another metric.
But migrate option, i think they could be integrated because they are a key part of a decentralized system. I you can't move easily from facebook, reddit, you will stay. And that's why people stay, they shared life with people, they have build together a community...
There is an article about nomadic identity that explain well those part. :)
AnonomousWolf@lemm.ee 15 hours ago
Ability to migrate is definitely very important, In a newer version I’ll add it in.
What weight do you think it should have?
I’ll shrink the others so the score stays 100
Snoopy@piefed.social 14 hours ago
Or maybe a separate scoring system ? So i will be easier to manage it ?