Comment on We should have something like federated communities
cerevant@lemmy.world 1 year ago
No, and the difference between Beehw and Lemmy.world is why. Different people have different views about moderation and what is acceptable content.
There are two solutions to the real problem of duplicate content:
- Multireddit - like functionality for grouping similar content.
- Making crossposting a reference to the original post, not a copy. Mods would need to be able to block crossposts from specific communities, and remove crossposts to their sub.
sxan@midwest.social 1 year ago
These are solvable technical issues.
If community mods on different servers saw they have similar moderation guidelines, they could agree to federate. If they diverge in the future or disagree, they could defederate. Just like instances can defederate from previously federated servers today. It would be no more or less disruptive than defederation is today.
Heck, if done thoughtfully, it could even allow cross moderation, multiplying the number of mods for like-minded communities. The only mods who wouldn’t appreciate that are the egotistical, power hungry, Redditish mods.
cerevant@lemmy.world 1 year ago
If the mods can agree on policy, there is absolutely no reason to have two communities. Shut one down and use the other.
YourHuckleberry@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That system makes the instance a single-point-of-failure for the whole community, which has been a big problem lately. If communities could easily be multi-instance they would have redundancy. That seems like a good reason to me.