• TakingOnWater@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    I just don’t like the idea of having 500 accounts after it’s all said and done, especially if most of them wind up being unused… unless I’m fundamentally doing something wrong by creating a new account on every instance I want to use?

    • adrian783@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      I mean you won’t, they way it’s going to shake out is instances with similar values form nation-states and cut ties with other nation-states they dont agree with

      well probably see the emergence of meta-alliances soon that dictate the degree of separation of a blacklisted instance.

    • Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de
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      2 years ago

      You don’t need an account for every instance.

      How it will mostly evolve in the future is that people will have one vanilla account, and if they want, one account for piracy and another for porn

      • DMmeYourNudes@lemmy.world
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        2 years ago

        you need an account to go to an instance that isn’t federated. this is the core flaw that makes this entire system unusable for normal people. you don’t want to have multiple accounts just so you can post the same memes in 12 different servers to get 1/40th the interaction you would get if everyone was centralized. this isn’t a discord server, its a link aggregator and decentralizing the aggregator is antithetical to making this service work.

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            2 years ago

            it doesn’t mater what you like, if the platform can not grow from here, witch it can not in its current state, it will simply bleed users and die like voat.

        • Mane25@feddit.uk
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          2 years ago

          Or just find an instance that has federation policies you agree with, you don’t need to post in every single instance - maybe some defederated because there were too many people posting the same shitty memes. And who needs 40x interaction? Reddit was too big, too many people competing for attention.

          • DMmeYourNudes@lemmy.world
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            2 years ago

            and then that instance get defederated by one of the big instances or has other performance issues because its not one of the big instances and now you’re stuck picking from the big instances if you want any kind of content and curation on a socialmedia platform built to centralize users into interest groups so they can curate and discuss content. but yeah, defederatino is good for that, lets you live in your completely unpopulated bubble.

            • Mane25@feddit.uk
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              2 years ago

              Very hypothetical there, like you’re reaching for things that could go wrong.

              I know that centralisation doesn’t work because I’ve seen it turn the internet to shit over the last 15 years. If I had it my way we’d go back to small independent forums with no federation because they were much better communities. But in the name of progress, federation does have some advantages, but as soon as things start getting too big there should absolutely be defederation to prevent the platform from getting like Reddit.

              • DMmeYourNudes@lemmy.world
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                2 years ago

                im telling you things that are happening right not to various instances for various reasons, all of them down to the personal bias of the admins, not the consensus of the users in that instance.

                • Mane25@feddit.uk
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                  2 years ago

                  Who says they need consensus? Instances are privately run, they don’t have to be democracies. Users can vote with their feet, so to speak.

                  • DMmeYourNudes@lemmy.world
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                    2 years ago

                    yeah, the admins can just make unilateral changes to their platform, that isn’t the problem with every form of socialmedia, no, its something else.

              • Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de
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                2 years ago

                To be honest, if that person is so keen on centralized platform, why are they even here? They should just go back to Reddit, they might come back here later

    • Countmacula@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      I mean saying 500 is a little hyperbolic but this is exactly why federation exists and isn’t just another Reddit.

      You find what you like and go there. It’s really no different than the old forums. Reddit centralized everything, lemmy is that but also the old way.