It would be cool to see an organization like this one get federated

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• breadsmasher@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  what benefit would having a federated version bring?

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• BlueEther@no.lastname.nz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think that is one use case that I wouldn’t want to see the service split up. It’s strength is that all the data is in one place and little fragments wont vanish id instances go down

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  • schmorpel@slrpnk.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I do see the problem that a valuable set of global data is ultimately held by a US-American organization. I do know regional subsidiaries exist and in the case of Europe often seem to be run by public organizations, so that offsets this problem. I also wouldn’t know how federation would work with something like inaturalist. Maybe keep instances of regional data? I could see a use case there.

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• Nikokin@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There is a “iNaturalist network”, not sure if that counts www.inaturalist.org/sites/network

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