There's almost always a more deserving community that could use some good content and growth!

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I think you're now suggesting things that have nothing to do with consolidating communities.

Backup communities don’t really exist right now. There are copies of things on other servers l, but they can’t become functioning communities. This has caused some communities to disappear when their instance went down. The biggest I remember is movies and TV related things.

They don't exists right now, but the foundation is there. I checked the old kbin.social communities that users from lemm.ee had subscribed to. All the posts seem to be there right until kbin.social got shut down. The data exists on your instance even if the original instance went down. It's just a matter of figuring out and creating a new functionality to revive those communities on a new instance. This suggestion has nothing to do with consolidation, it's just a backup solution that can already be done.

Having a ledger helps with discovery, because instances now don’t know about other communities by default, it requires extra effort to seek them out until someone else has found them and subscribed. It’s not a big deal for established communities, but it does hurt building a new one.

I don't see how that specifically requires a ledger but I guess we can call it a ledger. The solution itself is fairly simple, each instance publishes whenever a new community is created or deleted and federated instances can store that data on their side to have a list of all the communities to search for. For already existing we can create a "publish all existing communities" so each instance can update their lists accordingly. That's effectively a ledger but once again, it has nothing to do with consolidating communities.

I don’t have a great solution for admin of creation/movement of communities, but this isn’t meant to be a 100% solution. Distributed consensus is a concept that exists though.

Distributed consensus is a concept but is such complexity necessary? Especially when the end result isn't that much different to what we already have.

There’s no reason a community can’t go on a users instance as default, it just enables a community to potentially migrate for various reasons.

It can, but it doesn't really matter because that's exactly how the current system works. As for migrations, if we solve the "backup community" problem then that functionality can just as well be used for migrations because right now we can just duplicate data. If you want to add the one community restriction that migration actually gets harder to implement.

This doesn’t necessarily create a walled garden, as no one owns the walls. It does encourage everyone within Lemmy to maximally federate. I can’t say it significantly changes integration with other implementations as they were never very robust in the first place.

Kbin/Mbin integrations with Lemmy worked pretty well, but if you force all Lemmy instances to use a solution unique to Lemmy then you're pretty much building a wall because integrations with other similar implementations become less likely. Nobody owns the wall but it would create an "in" group and an "out" group. We already kinda have that with Lemmygrad and Hexbear and the rest of Lemmy, but those two instances can exists independently from the rest of Lemmy so the "in" and "out" groups can easily coexists. But if you force communities across instances you're going to also force friction between the "in" and "out" groups. There can only be one "c/europe" but there's one on Lemmygrad and there's also one on feddit. If you keep the feddit one then Lemmygrad and Hexbear can't have c/europe and if you let Lemmygrad have c/europe then the rest of Lemmy can't have c/europe. It's unnecessary friction.

I guess it would work if Lemmygrad and Hexbear were federated with the rest of Lemmy, but that's not happening.

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Oh please DragonFucker is 100% a troll.

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See nobody says this kinda thing about sh.

what does SH mean in this context?

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Considering most .world users are (former) Reddit users, it makes sense they'd get easily spooked by *insert thunder noises and ghost sounds:

MARXISM! UuUuHh!!

That platform has turned quite to the right with their moderation and acceptance

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completely agree.

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What's this about, sorry? Is this the thing with keeping chasers on here (which I personally don't agree with)?

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Um ok, I'm advocating against blahaj because it's a toxic space

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Ah yes the supply side jesus freedom ranking brought to you by citibank

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THEY WON'T LET ME SAY MY GODDAMNED SLURS FUCKING GODDAMNIT

I'M A CERTIFIED RULES LAWYER I SHOULD GET TO SAY MY FUCKING SLURS

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Crossposting

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Many of us have had propagandized disinformation blasted at us for recognizing realities we can see and hear with our own eyes and ears.

Editors note: the person above is speaking about things happening in countries they have never visited, and cannot speak the language of, as reported in press based in geopolitical enemies of those countries.

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Do you actually have any points or thoughts or is it all just mugging to the audience with you?

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Or, you know, play the classic .ml card of pretending you don’t know what we’re all talking about

Literally the only complaint of substance I've seen in this entire thread is people who want to be allowed to use slurs

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Lemmy's search is dogshit... It's my number one problem with this place. And this is the ONLY place I use these days.

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vaguepost replies remain undefeated

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It's almost as if you know you're in friendly territory so you don't actually have to have any meaning behind your words

More like I consider anyone who pretends not to know what we're talking about as a willful idiot not worth taking seriously

I don't have time to deal with those who deny reality, be it MAGA shitstains or blind tankies

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It's hard to keep up with all the reality you're inventing

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It's over having a community wide hard line on pronouns. Even if a suspected troll is using neo pronouns (or any pronouns frankly) that's not a license to misgender them.

The user that sparked the recent controversy (drag) has a history of being pretty volatile/offensive but that's still no reason to compromise on neo pronouns.

I for one would rather put up with someone 'trolling' while using neo pronouns (until the inevitable ban for saying something shitty) rather than tolerate anyone getting misgendered in a trans-inclusive space.

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I wasn't so lucky. I didn't even post about jury nullification. Just a Luigi reference.

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Fucking hell. Really? Thanks for telling me.

If someone wants to use a less orthodox pronoun fucking let them. Drag might have a history of being a troll but refusing to use drag's pronouns means that drag's gender is conditional on them being well behaved. It turns the use of anyone's pronouns into an act of "just being polite" or "humouring them". Its a culture of gate keeping we cannot afford to perpetuate in the current climate of anti-trans hostility.