When you go to /c/books on your server, you don’t see an agglomeration of all /c/books on all servers of the fediverse. You only see that server’s /c/books, if it even has one.
What prevents from visiting /c/books@anotherserver?
Genuinely asking, because this is one of the core concepts of Lemmy and federation
Quote posts are still not there, they are on Misskey forks
https://fedi.tips/why-cant-i-quote-other-posts-in-mastodon/
They are on the roadmap, but that doesn't say much.
In Lemmy terms, a community could subscribe to another community.
In this case, why not merge?
The current setup cntralizes power into the hands of whoever gets traction first on the platform.
There are other factors at hand, such as the moderation and the instance politics
I'm pretty sure it is there, you can export and import your subscriptions in the settings
The porn instance
the community fork it should this vision differ too much from their own. :)
Definitely :)
Migrating accounts between instances
Isn't that implemented in the 19.2 and later versions? I just migrated using that feature a few days back, worked quite well
TIL, I'll have to have a look
I guess that's the same for most of the userbase. Which is probably why switching to a more spread language could increase the number of contributors.