Otherwise, if we have a lot of medium sized instances but the most popular communities are hosted on just a few huge instances, doesn’t that defeat the purpose of distributing load across many instances?
If that’s the case, how do we solve the cumbersome user experience of having to subscribe to the same community over and over again across a ton of medium instances?
Unfortunately, that’s the wrong thinking. There are different kinds of mods for controversial topics. Let’s say: UFOs. Mods on one lemmy instance might allow only sightings (that’s the deal with the reddit one, for example), but another one might allow also for abductions (as it should, since it’s part and parcel with the whole thing for many people). So disallowing communities from existing on different servers, it controls the narrative and creates pigeonhole opinions. It needs to be something for everyone instead.
Just because you disagree with my opinion, doesn’t make it “the wrong thinking” 😊
I see what you mean, but there will always be someone who disagrees with the mods of a community. Instead of creating yet another c/ufo community, it would make more sense to create c/ufo_abductions fx. Your example is a good case for actually creating another c/ufo, but controversy is not going to be the issue every time someone wants to create an already existing community.
And I’m not saying there can’t be any duplicate communities at all. I just think admins should give it some thought, before creating the 8th c/technology community.
As @[email protected] also said, it would be something I would also take into consideration as well, if someone asked to have a community created on my instance.
Yea … that’s why I ask a new community that seems like a duplicate what they’re going to do differently. I think being open and explicit about differences, even if slight, is pretty important.
Eh, I don’t think that’s all that helpful. Mods change hands, and original goals change as well. Yeah, transparency is good, but redundancy is better.