Agreed, I feel like it's gotten a little better at gracefully dealing with server lag.
everett
joined 4 years ago
A number of people have already helpfully suggested learning more about the GPL, but as a prerequisite, definitely read up on the Dunning-Kruger effect.
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It's worth noting that for simple personal syncing with Joplin you don't need to run the full Joplin server — a simple WebDAV server is also an option.
I think where we differ is whether Lemmy is pointless without truly distributed communities. I come down on the side of "it's not pointless" since there's a huge and growing install-base of mostly* compatible servers, clients and users that means the cost of switching communities is low, and the threat of switching may be enough to keep mods from implementing unpopular policies. More worrying to me is the admin of your home instance, where your identity is located, going rogue, getting hit by a bus, forgetting to pay their hosting bill, etc.
*notwithstanding serious issues like defederation
Silently combining communities, which may each have different content policies, is rife with potential for user confusion. Also, there's no guarantee that communities with the same name across servers have the same aims — to use your "piracy" example, c/piracy on one instance may be enthusiasts of literally sailing the seas wearing peg-legs and looting ships, or people who have sarcastically adopted the name for their fandom of those Johnny Depp movies, or something else entirely. Or your desired kind of piracy may take place in communities named differently across servers, whether it's due to someone else registering the community name first, local slang/translation, etc. Ironically, I think what you're asking for is a different type of centralization — centralization of namespace across servers.
The suggestion is interesting, but you may be expecting something out of Lemmy that it is not, as communities are individually hosted and managed. It does sound like there may be potential for Lemmy instances or client apps to allow a user to combine communities, multireddit-style, for their own personal usage. That would be cool and useful.
Oh no! This is what I get for scrolling all the way to the bottom of the thread…
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