Lucas

You are now banned from r/pyongyang

100%. It appears to me this new community is already serving the purpose of the old one!

Never thought about how this relates to net neutrality. Reddit was kind of becoming a “common carrier” for information, but as a centralized source it’s in their interest to filter content for money’s sake. Here in the fediverse the communities (and their data) are cloned but constantly updated across many independently owned servers. So no one server owner can ever really steer the discourse. We just need an official way to migrate a community in the case an instance goes down/stops meeting the needs of the community.

I’d like to be a pirate, it’s a pirate’s life for me

Thanks for hosting!

Exactly. Bring all that discussion and content over here, then we are actually in control of it. We can’t expect anything to change when Reddit thinks there’s no viable alternative.

Nice. I think the Fediverse is the way to go for communities like this.

Love that idea. Servers could distinguish if they want to be a general ‘home instance’ for users, and those that opt in could communicate with each other and push accounts around as necessary. Servers could calculate their likelihood to accept a new incoming account based on some heuristics the admin could set, with sensible defaults. That way the system would self-balance itself as new instances appear and as mature ones reach capacity. Of course for that to work there would have to be some central authority keeping track of account locations for login purposes.

Spreading out is definitely the way to make this thing work. I’m sure there is more that can be implemented to help with federation speed, making sure you have all comments, etc. Those are solved with a monolith instance, but as we see you need a monster server to do it. I think instances averaging less than a few thousand users each will be the way to move forward.

I believe it is saved first on the instance you’re signed up for, then gets pushed around the network using the Activity pub protocol. So it eventually ends up being stored across many instances of it has far enough reach.

This is the main issue I see right now as well. I created my own instance for my account to live on, just so I know it will be there as long as I want it to. But that doesn’t do anything for communities I’m subscribed to that could, potentially, be on an instance that later goes down.

I think communities of similar topics are going to need to coordinate in the long run, and perhaps run their own instance to house their communities. This way the folks running the community and the folks hosting it are one in the same. You’d have instances that mainly house users, and perhaps a community or two. That’s where most folks would have their main account. Then you’d have instances that mainly house content, with few users besides the moderation/admin team(s).