MasterBlaster

I recently suggested @global for consolidated communities. There would have to be some kind of consensus on who and how communities would consolidate. I agree that having that does not get rid of all the other permutations.

Talk about dumb luck! I chose this server (apparently 2 days after launch) because docmentation suggested choosing a less populated server to spread the load. Now I'm on one of the biggest and most stable. Me so happy!

Clearly coordination and agreement between leaders is needed. I suggested something like that with a pseudo-instance of "@global", for example. However, it seems there is some resistance to the mere idea of globalizing certain popular communities, which I can understand.

Federation comes with its own set of problems, like replication, data volume, storage requirements, and massive overlap.

That last one affects user experience directly, and needs to be addressed. Maybe it will sort itself out, maybe not. If we have 10,000 servers, even 100 almost the same communities means quite a bit of work on the part of users just to decide which ones to join.

We are looking at the human equivalent of a system with an extremely fragmented disk, or database tables with indexes that end up doing table scans.

Periodic re-organization will be necessary to to maintain usability.

It happens. I usually take that to mean that either I'm distracted by other things, or I'm stressed, or very tired. Sometimes it just means it's time to go to bed.

This is true, though it is being updated rapidly. I expect it won't be that long before you can. What I really would like to see is a way to consolidate duplicate communities.

One problem with Federated systems is that he end up having to do design by committee, which takes a long time and sometimes requires compromises that in the end make things worse.

Jerboa is a good and rapidly improving android app for Lemmy.

Well, when I search for a community, the results span servers, so I can find and join wherever. It is possible the search feature only includes servers previously referenced, I don't know.

Since I'm using the app right now, I'll have to recite this from memory. But at the bottom of the screen you should see a button second from the left three lines.

Click on that and search for a group in the top portion. Click on the group once found, and there there is a subscribe button. As of yesterday clicking it appears to do nothing. In fact it does work. Exit the list and go back in, you will be subscribed.

Freaking spooky. Cyberpunk, even.

Not fact. It's my opinion based on the actions I see, and the fact things started to go down hill after the investors gave money. One of the big ones was Chinese.

We've seen how things go down when China is involved - loans to poor nations, Hong Kong, Taiwan, the disputed islands with Japan, Tibet, the Urghurs.

We've seen the various iterations of the "oops how did that key logger get in there?" discoveries (Lenovo, i'm looking at you), corporate espionage, Huawei telecommunications infrastructure being used to tap communicatons, etc..

Strict control of pretty much everything is the pattern, in which disinformation is easily dispensed and difficult to identify.

Why not "servers"? That's all they are. They serve content.

Looks like the Chinese "investor" is the Communist Party. The actions Reddit is taking are pretty much how they take down all the companies and citizens they target.