RagingNerdoholic

I still see benefits to strong instance identity, it can lead to some interesting dynamics down the line.

Such as?

But it needs to come with a smooth onboarding process, paired with the ability to easily migrate your account to a new instance with no loss of account history.

Totally agree. Like I said, I think the instance should be selected automatically (or at least promoted) by available capacity. It could just sort the list by user count to start and maybe start collecting some performance telemetry on instances to fine tune it later.

The account history is a big one, too. It could even be as simple as having the ability to download/upload your account history in a zip file, then it also serves as a backup. You could even schedule it regularly with the right bot or browser extension.

Another thing I just thought of while I was replying to this is that would be really nice to have is cross-instance authentication. It's kind of annoying when I go to a message context, but then I have to go back and find the message in my inbox to reply.

That explicitly violates the spamming and self promotion rules.

Meanwhile, reddit admins:

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BAGel

Gavin Belson vibes

Other users x-post like this all the time (cough e-girls cough) and literally nothing happens because it helps drive reddit viewership and ultimately ad views. If this violates anti-spam rules, then this is quite the conveniently selective enforcement.

If the UK calls those biscuits, what do you call savoury bread-like things such as these?

Making the understanding of lemmy's internal infrastructure incumbent upon users seems a bit ... clunky. I work in IT, I get why it works this way, but I don't see how making it so apparent it serves any benefit to users.

If any user can participate in any community regardless of instance, does anything matter other than instance capacity? The sign up could just automatically select an instance on that basis (but also provide the user the option to select one manually).

Perhaps instances should be promoted according to current and predicted capacity.

"Spam" reeks of weak horseshit justification for reddit's actions here. Lots of people x-post all sorts of things all the time. They were itching for a legitimate-sounding reason to ban you and they just reached for the first thing they could find using the loosest possible definition.

Wow. That headline is downright irresponsible.

Is a captcha out of the question? I guess that wouldn't capture trolls, but maybe it could slightly reduce the application burden.

doing your own research is the way to fix it,

Ah yes, the classic Im jUsT aSKiNg qUEsTi0nS dogwhistle.

Googling and reading is not "doing research." Research is hard, strictly methodical work and conducting tightly scoped experiments, not obsessing over conspiracy influencers to reinforce your own confirmation bias.

That's what got us into this mess of idiots destroying cell towers (because they were causing COVID... somehow?) and groups standing around a boulevard in Texas totally convinced that JFK would be rounding the corner any minute now.