• pfannkuchen_gesicht@lemmy.one
      141·
      1 year ago

      yeah… I think this exactly the kind of stuff that annoys people and discourages people to join. Now that they moved here they get told they did it wrong because they chose the wrong instance… despite everyone first saying it doesn’t matter and you shouldn’t think too hard about your choice because “federation, yay!”

      • DoctorTYVM@lemmy.world
        5·
        1 year ago

        What discourages people to join is not knowing which instance to join. Which is exactly how we got two communities branching off like this.

        What discourages people from joining is acting like “federation Yay” is actually a selling point instead of a nuisance that you have to accept. Just look at the downvotes this got in minutes. How is that encouraging?

    • VoltasPistol@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      8·
      1 year ago

      We setup on Blahaj because when we were trying to setup AccidentalRenaissance, we didn’t know we were one letter over the arbitrary 20 letter limit on community names, and there wasn’t even an error message for it, so we were pounding our heads against the wall trying to figure out why we couldn’t setup anywhere on any server.

      And we didn’t make a big fuss about who we were either. We were just looking to setup an instance. Just some randos as far as anyone knew. So we asked for help.

      The admins of Blahaj personally told us what the problem was and when I asked if it was an absolute limit they said it wasn’t, and raised their limit. Just for us. Some random-ass strangers. They changed their server just so someone wouldn’t have to shorten their name.

      So that’s how Blahaj scored AccidentalRenaissance.

      Given how many actual Renaissance artists were legitimately, deeply, obsessively queer? Yeah, it fits.

    • Saneless@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      Yes and no. Yes it’s good to have a larger presence as say the “canonical” sub, but on the other hand having them on smaller instances is overall the better play

      • DoctorTYVM@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        To what end? The more spread out they are the less engagement they have and the sub flounders. Look at what happened to r/android. Went from being one of the largest communities on lemmy.world to puttering along on their new instance, losing a good chunk of users back to Reddit where everything is simple and in one place.

      • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        Betamax was the better play versus VHS, but we all know how that ended.

        In social gatherings people will want to gather in the same place, and then maybe break off into smaller groups for more precise social interactions. That’s kind of the standard normal human thing.

        The problem with Federation is it doesn’t honor that. It has everyone create small specific social gatherings on their own, and then having someone from each small gallery run between the different social gathering groups to share what each other is saying

        I get on paper how Federation is the best way to go, and I do agree with that. The problem is the human population kind of want all people to all gather in one place, and not try to figure out where they have to gather at.

          • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.world
            1·
            1 year ago

            I think you’re confusing products from the one that I mentioned…

            Also, it’s a well-known fact that Betamax was a higher quality recording format, where VHS was a less quality but longer recording time format.

              • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.world
                1·
                1 year ago

                As someone who owned a professional Sony Betamax machine, I disagree.

                You can have that machine record at the highest quality setting that a VHS macjine couldn’t match, at least not until the very end of the production cycle war, when they added another mode to some VHS macjines for the higher quality but the shorter recording time.

                It was a marketing ploy, it was the battle of quality versus quantity. And quantity won.