/c/StarTrek@lemmy.world is under refreshed management

So you’re saying that 14 of the 15 “mini forums” shouldn’t exist, and everyone should use a single instance, but access it through their instance via the Fediverse (like subscribing to !startrek@lemmy.world on kibin)? If so, wouldn’t that mean a consolidation of power for the !startrek@lemmy.world instance, and thus go against what federation is about in the first place? Or am I misunderstanding the whole purpose of decentralized social media? I thought the reason we wanted to use the Fediverse over Reddit was because Reddit had too much control over the content, but if one instance has all the content, doesn’t that instance have just as much power as Reddit has now?

timbervale@kbin.social · 2 years ago

Because they are trapped there. A user account on Reddit remains on Reddit, it can’t access communities outside of Reddit.

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?

Then when Reddit goes bad and startrek@reddit.com starts sucking, I can just start posting on startrek@startrek.website instead. No need to create a new account or “migrate” anywhere. The friction is minimal.

Right, but then all of the other users that post interesting content that you went to startrek@reddit.com for are still on startrek@reddit.com, not on your new instance. 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. Federation did nothing to help that problem.

You don’t need to move to a different instance. I’m not sure where this miscommunication is coming from. You can continue using timbervale@kbin.social if startrek@startrek.website “goes bad” and instead go hang out on some other startrek community without having to create a new account.

It’s not miscommunication, it’s just that I’m removing the option of changing to a different community/magazine on the same instance. If I can no longer stand being part of !startrek@startrek.website, I’m not going to start posting to !startrek2@startrek.website, I’m going to the next largest community, which is, at this time, usually on a different instance all together, like !startrek@lemmy.world. I’m not talking about my user account, I’m talking about the community/magazine itself. If a mod on !startrek@startrek.website goes crazy and starts banning people for talking about Star Trek: Discovery, I’m not going to want to be there, even if my account hasn’t been banned, yet. As a result, I would need to find a new Star Trek community to post in, which is what I mean when I say I’d have to move to a different instance (because why would I switch to a different community/magazine on the same instance? And, also, there are a million scenarios where switching to a different community/magazine on the same instance would be a bad idea/impossible). Note that when I say community, I mean the equivalent of kbin’s magazine, as Lemmy calls it a community.

Move to the smaller instance. Everyone else can move too. It’s just as easy for them as for you. Then it becomes the bigger instance.

The entire reason I would subscribe to a community/magazine is because I enjoy interacting with the community there, and seeing/interacting with the content they post. If I switch to a smaller community/magazine, that content becomes exceedingly rare, and the number of people I can converse with drops dramatically. There are 315 subscribers to !electricvehicles@kbin.social, but 241,000 subscribers to https://reddit.com/r/electricvehicles. Clearly, the experience of posting to one vs. the other is drastically different, wouldn’t you say? Why would I go to a place where I have just a few people to talk with, when I could stay on the old site that has thousands upon thousands of people? The same applies to if it were 5 years from now and !electricvehicles@kbin.social has 241,000 users but !electricvehicles@lemmy.world has 315: no one will want to switch if the mods of the larger community/magazine turn into assholes.

If it’s “bad enough” for you to move but not for them to move, perhaps you’re being more sensitive to the badness than everyone else is. Maybe it’s not so bad. If it is that bad, then why aren’t they moving?

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”?

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