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[–] GeneralBoop@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It would be nice if there was a directory that made it clear what server has defederated what.

Fragmentation and the lack of continuity and good navigation is seriously going to be what kills any chance a federated Reddit alternative has at becoming even 25% as large as Reddit was.

[–] ElmiHalt@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You can see what an instance has defederated by adding /instances to the URL of the instance. There's no way to see it for more than one instance (at a time) as far as I know, so yeah, have to agree with you.

[–] abraxas@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, the only way defederation is a feature is if there's a way (even if it's standardized at the client-side) to merge that defederation for those who want a cohesive experience.

It'd almost be better if every user could pick their own "federations" instead of it being at the server level. Obviously the servers need to have that control and my hypothetical might not be in throwing range of what lemmy can/should do.