I want to watch that.
To add on I think it is also a thing of social norms. So if a plurality in a post starts being argumentative then it can become the default way others talk in other parts of the post.
So it sort of is an "Embody the change you want to see" thing.
No centralisation means there’s no canonical single source of truth.
I don't think this is a bad thing. Having centralization leads to one narrative taking over the post. With more decentralization, there is a natural way for different kinds of conversation to take root.
Also, this is going to occur much more when people get the ability to block instances anyway.
I agree with you. What do you think we as users could do to make this happen?
Also on a sidenote has anyone thought of creating a publicly owned instance before? I wonder how that would work.
Yeah, I was thinking of scraping the active users as well but from what I observed when trying different instances, the active users aren't counted separately by instance so the active users would just be all the active users on that community no matter where they are from. That info is already available on lemmyverse.net so I didn't want to copy it.
I bet there is a way to do this with the Lemmy API but I don't have a good understanding on how to use it so I am just waiting for someone more knowledgeable than me to try this again but with more care.
Edit: Unrelated but I went through the subreddit stats for a bunch of subs and it seems like posts and comments for a lot of them have dropped off after the API changes so that seems bad for Reddit and good for us.
I hope so.
I found it. You have to press the communities tab at the top of your instance and press all
Is there a way to see all the communities on your instances c/all?
Edit: Nvm it is at the top of the page.
This is why both safe spaces and public spaces are needed so that ideas/behaviors have one place to form/grow and another to negotiate with other ideas/behaviors.
The way that each of these spaces is moderated becomes important.
That's why I included the words informal, but I get your point I hope it doesn't become too bureaucratic and is just a place for admins to build trust and communication with each other so federation/defederation is a more conscious decision.
Safe spaces are tools. Tools can be used for good and bad.
The same way that terrorists use E2EE chats doesn't mean that we should ban them.
I just wanted to thank you for giving actionable advice to them and having a pleasant tone.