parallelminds comments on Why decentralization doesn't work for forums

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[+] parallelminds@lemmy.world [S] -8 points 1 week ago (3 children)

That's my whole argument, if Lemmy is going to be naturally fragmented and require a new account for every defederated instance, why not just use regular forums at that point?

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[–] Lehmuusa@nord.pub 13 points 1 week ago*

You don't need an account for every defederated instance. The network is still one and whole. Defederation only hides the two instances' activities from each other's users, but you can use piefed.zip that doesn't defederate from basically anything.

You will see all content defederated from lemmy.world and you will also see all content from lemmy.world.

If you use piefed.zip, you will get precisely the result you are describing you want. You will have all the Forumverse content behind one login, seamlessly.

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[–] quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 week ago

This one is easy, because regular forums are even more fragmented. Are you really one of those "all or nothing" people?

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[–] fancy-straw-simple@piefed.ca 2 points 5 days ago

If you are in a regular forum you also don't get access to any of the lemmy communities, so what's your point?

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