I don’t think its naiv. I think its more realistic. I like most about the article that it puts the activitypub-protocol front and center. This is mainly what made me view the fediverse differently. And that therefore power dynamics will probably shift in the next years away from Mastodon.

Actually, there is something like this called Fedivision :D

Totally agree. It would be cool to have some variant of our own that we can share with the world.

I think it shouldnt ban companies per se. But yeah, if its all build up on open source software and a more healthy culture it will all be for the better. Thats why I wrote “better” silicon valley

Interesting that you mention open souce shared universes. I mean, at the end of the day, all of these become public domain anyways. The problem is that it takes way too long.

But for example with “lord of the rings”, it will someday be available to the public and then things will get interesting, especially with AI these days …

message boards

But thats what Mastodon does effectively. Then Lemmy would be another micro blogging service in the fediverse

What is still distinguishing them from Disney, Amazon and the like is their international productions with local film makers. Lets see how that will turn out in the next years …

Yeah ok. Before the streaming wars.

Its peer-to-peer, right? How do they handle moderation in there?

Just looked up what FANG means - what the hell does Netflix in there? Seriously Netflix doesn’t do shit. Typical case of forced acronyms ;)

Without the fediverse a viable non-surveilled internet might not be able to exist.

I would agree. Mastodon made search opt-in. There will always be communities and users that refuse to be searchable and that should be fine.

No, each service is a service, regardless of whether its a company or a community or a single user. The idea is that it is a center of innovation for FOSS.

Default-Local-Feed was also noted as bad user-experience in this article: https://www.androidauthority.com/reddit-alternatives-lemmy-3335429/

Sure, there are categorization tools like Lemmy map that let you look up instances, but the Matrix-like grid will certainly not make things any easier for the average user. Even after logging into Lemmyworld, it took me a while to figure out that the local tab restricts all conversations to discussions on the Lemmyworld server. Switching the tab to all and catching up on discussions happening in the broader multiverse of Reddit alternatives is also possible. Still, there’s no visual identifier that guides you toward it.

Ok, I take that.

So the thing is: I don’t want to push users towards the Local-feed. That’s just what currently happening if you go to the front page. Local is selected as default. You can switch to All but often enough, I at least don’t do it.

Why is that? Because instances have less control of the All-feed, its often enough full of crap and the post of small instances will almost never appear in the All-feed. So they select Local as default and I, as a user, have to always switch between Local and All, which is annoying. I want to see whats going on on my instance but I also want to discover stuff from all over the threadiverse.

My solution is to combine the two into one feed, which simply picks posts from the respective feeds based on probabilities.

Why?

Well its not proven or anything that’s true. But until now no one convinced me otherwise.

Because of this: https://lemmy.world/post/5110170

Thanks to @[email protected] for half of the idea

I like that idea

Interesting, I hadn’t thought about the ethical and data protection issues for this problem before.

Could linking of communities solve it? You close a community, open it on another instance and link the two?

That’s true. I’m not sure it would be a good feature, because you would inevitable only see a certain view of the instance. For example your instances blocks certain communities of that instance (don’t know if thats possible but lets assume it is), then you wouldn’t see these communities.

I’m fine with the way it is. Also you can post to that topic, you just need to search for it in your instances UI.