rglullis

Theoretically, any admin would still have access to the server and make changes to things.

Practically, no. Anyone providing this service would be a hosting provider. If something bad happens at the community, they would only be able to claim it's not their responsibility if they are able to point to the actual moderator who is liable.

What I am thinking as a possible solution would be to have some type of "community server", akin to email list servers. The admin of the server becomes a "mere" service provider, and those that create communities are then responsible for moderation and that content being hosted there.

I believe that this would be perfectly possible to implement with Lemmy, so much so that I will add some of this functionality to Fediverser as part of my NLNet grant. The question is: who else would be interested in hosting these fediverser-enabled instances?

What If I told you that it does not require a complete rework of Lemmy, but instead just additional services to use instances as independent "ActivityPub group servers"?

Can we make some root cause analysis? Why is it a problem that certain communities are only on one instance?

Or better, why do communities need some relationship to an instance?

Might very well be interesting to people regardless of language

Then why bother with language settings at all? If people are just going to set the languages according to what they think might be relevant to the audiences, then the whole idea becomes a silly variant of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ3ETK7-ZM8

When you submit a post or comment, there is a selection box to indicate what language it is. People can choose what language they do understand to filter out content they can not / are not interested in seeing. OP has selected "English" as the language of a post that is clearly in German.

I speak German just fine. It's for other people. What's the point of having a language setting if people are just going to stick "English" there?

I know you are mentioning it's in German in the comment, but how about using the properly language setting as well?

Let's get the ball rolling there. What's your team? Can you help, post some news, goals and highlights?

Ernest actively does not accept any help.

The project page is listing 5 names under contributors. He has received a grant from NLNet and seems to be promoting other sponsorship programs. Seems like he is not above asking for help. Quite the opposite, actually. He is basically begging for the "community" to support him financially, but seems that very few (kbin is getting less than $100/month on Patreon and ~$90/month on liberapay) are listening.

But he should have formed a team around him to carry the load

How do you "form a team" if there is no meaningful income? I don't know about him, but I would feel pretty embarrassed to even ask other people to work on something if I am not offering something tangible in return. And to be quite honest, I wouldn't trust anyone that accepted a pitch that could be summarized as "hey, would you like to come work on this project that is sucking the life out of me, gives a ton of headaches and forces me to deal with a bunch of entitled users?"

Third-party login is not going to change the fact that Lemmy servers (like every other server on Activity pub nowadays) connect the user identity to the server domain. It will maybe save people from creating yet another password, but that is about it.

Never been to a pub?

Have you been to any pub where the conversation goes around one specific topic and there are moderators to make sure the conversation stays within its guidelines? I surely haven't.

Maybe I misunderstood you. I thought you were calling for licenses that force companies to pay. Dual licensing is indeed an option if a company wants to pay to use free software in a closed product.

Re: bureaucracy. If you have any thoughts on how to get a public-funded system that can allocate resources (a) efficiently (b) at a large scale and ( c ) without falling to politicking and power games, I'm all ears. Myself, I still believe that market-based approaches are better, and that we should leave the government only to (local-level) regulations.