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Why decentralization doesn't work for forums (nightash.net)
submitted 6 days ago by to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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[–] 1 point 6 days ago (7 children)

Also, is there any centralized forum that is more active than the Threadiverse (Lemmy/Piefed/Pylova/Mbin)?

Fecesbook, Shitter, and LickedIn came to my mind first.

Then there are Reddit and Tumblr and a couple more.

But all of these are worse experiences than the Fediverse. And I believe that's because the Fediverse is federated.

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 6 days ago (4 children)

    That’s unrelated. Correlation doesn’t prove causation. It’s fair to say you haven’t seen a high-quality centralized forum, but that doesn’t mean one can’t exist.

    Either way, I’m pointing to a real issue with Lemmy that you seem to have overlooked: what happens when instances defederate over ideological or other differences?

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  • [–] 2 points 6 days ago (3 children)

    what happens when instances defederate over ideological or other differences?

    Their users get a better user experience.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

    What are you talking about? What ‘better user experience’? If defederation means communities disappear from each other, why not just use regular forums? They’re already fragmented. Either way, you can’t use your account across defederated Lemmy instances, so you end up with the same thing as regular forums, just with extra steps.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 days ago

    The main reason I picked .zip was the lack of defederation. There's definitely content here I don't want to see and do hide, but I'm suprised how many people here (Lemmings? Piefeddies?) are happy to delegate that task to an instance admin.

    It's my role to determine what content I see, no one else's.

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