Comment on We should have something like federated communities

ilikekeyboards@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• mojo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Definitely not.

  For every individual community you would have to pay for a domain, maintain the instance, keep it updated, keeping it secure, and keeping it paid. That’s really difficult already with a single server, let alone multiple for multiple servers and domains.

  It’d also still have the problem of multiple communities with the same topic, so it’s not solving anything.

  How do you expect people to migrate to Lemmy if these are the ridiculous hoops they’re expected to do to start a community. Instead, they can just go to reddit and click a “create subreddit” button instead. What option do you think they’d choose?

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  • ilikekeyboards@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    How do you expect people to migrate to lemmy when you have the five thousand people split amongst ten servers with world news

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    • mojo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That’s the beauty of decentralization and should be encouraged that way. Those are two different problems though. The issue of different servers with the same community topics is being figured out right now, the devs have a couple different ideas on how they’re tackling that. The other issue is onboarding, so finding a server and signing up is much simpler and streamlined. These are both issues that can be greatly improved upon.

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  • Loulou@lemmy.mindoki.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Well, can’t you just go to a Lemmy server and click “create community”?

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    • mojo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yes, they’re saying they’d rather get rid of that and have the entire Lemmy server be dedicated to one community.

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• elbarto777@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Its* own

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  • independantiste@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    🤓

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• pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It still could

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• Corgana@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I kind of agree because it would guarantee instance owners are dedicated to making one community as awesome as they can, but at the same time the current structure means non-technically inclined people are able to have a home off-Reddit as long as their values align with the instance owner.

  That said, Startrek.website is kinda doing a focused-topic thing with different communities and rules within. I think it could serve as a good model for themed instances.

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