Instances shouldn't be first class citizens, they should be more invisible to the users. The fediverse should be more like a cloud. Communities should be the primary focus, and only allow Instances to control how many users/communities they are the primary/secondary source for.

[–] Kichae@kbin.social 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

Disagree. Indeed, I couldn't disagree more strongly.

Instances are not just abstract server nodes in some overly wasteful recreation of some other website. This is the world wide social web as it should have been.

You may as well argue that websites should be indistinguishable from each other.

This isn't Reddit. Full stop. And it's not a drop-in Reddit replacement, either. It's not "Reddit, but different". It's a whole new paradigm in forums and content aggregation. It's very different from centralized social media, and we need to stop dancing around or trying to hide that fact.

It will never get to reach its potential if we decide it needs to be nothing more than a simulacra of what came before it.

[–] lalo@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry to burst your bubble, but there already exists a proposal to make communities work more like a cloud.

It's just a matter of time before Lemmy and Kbin implement this.

[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

It's a proposal, not a certainty. There've been a bunch of proposals for ways to allow people to aggregate communities from multiple instances together and it'll be a handy tool to have, but it doesn't change the fundamental properties of the Fediverse. It just makes it more convenient to use it in various different ways.

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