Most of the communities are on one instance i.e .ml. Should we spin up more instances and start spreading communities either by location, interests, etc? Maybe, I am wrong but do mod/s who run the communities understand the idea of “decentralized social networks” or this is just to get few brownie points to start the community and increase the traffic? Please correct me if I am wrong.

No offence, just an observation.

  • nutomic@lemmy.ml
    6·
    3 years ago

    You mean that a single community would be hosted on multiple instances? Its a nice idea, but I think its impossible to do in Activitypub. Would like to be proven wrong though.

    • tmpodMA
      4·
      3 years ago

      Yeah, I believe that’s what they meant. It would be neat, but don’t know AP to be able to comment on that.

    • zksmk@lemmy.ml
      3·
      3 years ago

      I might be wrong, and correct me if I am, because I don’t really know how AP works, but I feel like this functionality already exists, sort of. Mostly because the suggestion wasn’t really a cross instance community, with everything that it entails (subs, mods, bans, etc…) but more like a custom filtered feed.

      If you currently go to the All page you see different posts from different communities from different instances. If this was filtered by community name (minus instance) it would effectively be the suggestion. Just have this filter functionality accessible through instance.tld/t/insertfiltertopichere

      One key point though: as I understand it, for posts from any remote community to appear on the All page at least one home user needs to subbed to the community, it’s not enough for at least one user to be subbed to any other community on the remote instance? In that case, for this idea to be effective, at least one user each needs to be manually subbed to all the individual same named communities, or I feel like there could be a home bot user that subs to all the communities on the white listed instances.

      I hope I’m explaining this well. Would this work? Sounds hacky, but looks to me like it would work.

      • nutomic@lemmy.ml
        5·
        3 years ago

        Something like a multireddit? That should work, and it probably wouldnt require any federation changes. You can open an issue for it.