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Just joined, and well, I'm thinking ill stay. Ive been looking for a good reddit alternative for a while now. devs, you've done quite some good work here.

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[–] gnoop@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I was hoping the communities were more tightly federated. That is, the community name was simply the community name on all servers rather than having local vs All.

[–] bigbox@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But what if the mods on a community go rogue? If the politics community in one instance goes to shit because of a corrupt mod, you can join one from another instance rather than have no option.

[–] gnoop@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

You'd end up with having to go to a different community regardless. It would just mean using a new community name rather than the server+community federated name.

Currently if something like /c/technology goes rogue, you'd end up either joining c/technology@beehaw.org or someone creates /c/tech.. or both. In tighter federation, /c/technology is toast so you move to /c/tech or something like that instead but there's no option for a /c/technology@some-other-server. In some ways more limiting but it ends up easier for the end user.