This is an opportunity for any users, server admins, or interested third parties to ask anything they’d like to @[email protected] and I about Lemmy. This includes its development and future, as well as wider issues relevant to the social media landscape today.

Note: This will be the thread tmrw, so you can use this thread to ask and vote on questions beforehand.

Original Announcement thread

  • sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf
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    1 year ago

    So if I have a successful community, someone on another instance should get to ride on my work and flourish by setting up a community with the same name? This makes no sense.

    • Vlhacs@reddthat.com
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      1 year ago

      Isn’t that one of the side effects of having a federated universe? I don’t feel it’s so much riding your work as it is combining conversations within a single deduped community.

      Also, if nothing is done about it, wouldn’t we keep having issues like this: https://lemmy.ca/post/2821804

      • sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf
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        1 year ago

        Federated means accessible in a single state. It doesn’t mean zero ownership or control, hence why the dictionary definition mentions internal autonomy.

        Those are spammers. Block them, that’s the only way they’ll learn.

    • Bady@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      You’re enjoying the benefits of federation, by having the ability to grow “your” community with people across the fediverse rather than with only the people on the same instance as yours. So that’s the price you have to pay. Also, in the long run, communities will grow naturally based on the quality of the content and not just because they have popular names!