The problem of which instance to host a community on is a big problem for Lemmy. Grouping is an interesting idea but it causes problems as now there are different mods and admins that control subsets of the community.

Picking a single "winner" and letting the others wither seems like the right approach and will probably happen naturally but if the original instance ever shuts down or struggles under the load you will have a mess to migrate to a new instance.

If Lemmy communities were decentralized it would make a huge difference. You could just have a single community but it could survive instances coming and going (as well as many other performance and resiliency benefits). But that would be a huge change to the underlying implementation of communities.

[–] maboesanman@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think it probably makes sense to host similarly moderated content together.

programming content being grouped together makes sense because it’s moderated to a similar extent between languages and communities.

For example discussions/posts on rust programming and porn are moderated very differently, so they should be on different instances.

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I disagree. Grouping communities makes sense if they need the same admin policy. Admin policy sets a floor on what mods are required to police when it comes to things like hate speech and threats, but mods in a programming community aren't going to allow that shit anyway, so admin policy is irrelevant.

[–] maboesanman@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

I think we agree, and I didn’t know “moderated similarly” was referring to admin policy. Basically you want the people at the top to be generally aligned with the views of the community

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