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Why can't magazines/communities aggregate content from other instances? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by timbervale@kbin.social to c/fediverse@kbin.social

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When I look at https://lemmy.ml/c/startrek vs https://kbin.social/m/startrek I see two entirely different lists of posts. Why? It's the same topic, just on different instances. How can we have communities about topics without having them siloed into their own instance-based communities? Is this just related to that 0.18 issue with Lemmy/kbin not talking nicely, or is this how the Fediverse is?

Is it (at least theoretically) possible for me to post an article on https://kbin.social/m/startrek and have it automatically show up on https://lemmy.ml/c/startrek, or are they always going to be two separate communities?

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[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Creating a new account on kbin here was not exactly hard. Is your argument that millions of people still use Reddit because they can't type in a couple of data fields?

Creating the account is not the only burden in this process, it's a whole other website you need to go to. All those objections you've been raising about "migrating content" and "migrating users" and whatnot that don't actually apply between federated instances do apply between the Fediverse and Reddit.

Now, your new instance gets zero posts because it's new, but the old instance still has millions of people posting to it every second of every day. Yeah, you have a new place to post to, but all of the content that you went to startrek@reddit.com for in the first place is still over there.

The scenario you originally proposed is that the current "main" community has gone bad in some way.

Has it, or has it not, "gone bad"? If it has then people will want to leave it to go someplace that hasn't "gone bad." The Fediverse makes that easy. Reddit makes that hard.

It's not miscommunication, it's just that I'm removing the option of changing to a different community/magazine on the same instance.

You're not talking about federated instances, then. I'm talking about the Fediverse, and you seemed to claim to be talking about the Fediverse, but it really seems like you're not. I assumed that this was because you were failing to understand something that we were telling you, but at this point I'm really not sure any more. You appear to have some imagined version of the Fediverse that you're discussing that doesn't correspond to reality and you're refusing all correction that you're getting to this.

Look, if you really want to stick with whatever is the biggest community regardless of how "bad" the admins have become, then just stay on Reddit. You don't need to come here. Stay on Reddit, endure whatever the admins decide to do with the site, because it's the biggest and that's all that matters to you. That's fine, everyone has different priorities.

The reason people are migrating to the Fediverse is because it frees them from Reddit's admins, and will prevent future admin abuse by making it easy to interact with any instance from any other instance. Nobody's trapped on just one instance here, meaning nobody is stuck with dealing with just one set of admins.

So now it's, "if most people don't move, it's not really that bad, or it's your fault for thinking it's bad"?

Pretty much. What's wrong with that statement? Different people have different values and priorities and will consider different things to be "bad." There are people who use Reddit's official app and like it just fine. There are people who don't mind if their favourite subreddits are overrun with trolls or are lacking the best content because the good mods have all been driven away. That's fine, they can stay with Reddit if they want. Reddit doesn't have to die for the Fediverse to live.

Do you want to come here? I've explained how it works. If you don't like how it works, don't come here. It's really quite simple.