I don’t understand how Lemmy intends to do it when the different instances are federated, if several instances create the same community for example…is that possible?
I don’t understand how Lemmy intends to do it when the different instances are federated, if several instances create the same community for example…is that possible?
I feel like that would needlessly complicate federation, as described in other places on this thread (https://lemmy.ml/post/31114/comment/2943 etc).
Having different servers, many of whom aren’t connected, having different “versions” of the same community, that share some data, but not all, would be infinitely more complicated.
I see your point, however I think community fragmentation is an issue that will need to be resolved, and having separate communities for each instance won’t help with that.
What if instance A wants to make a
/c/news, and have control over it, but that name is already taken?Fragmentation means community owners actually get full control over anything they want to create.
Ah, I see. How will communities across instances be differentiated?
With different identifiers. So if you’ve subscribed to both communities, you will see a
posted by X to instance1/c/news, andposted by Y to instance2/c/news.Communities are totally different from hashtags, which have no moderation and anybody can put anything they want in them.
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“Fragmentation” of communities is a good thing.
If someone starts up a lemmy instance about star trek, and someone starts up one about breaking bad, both of them can have
/c/newscommunities.And from my feed, I can subscribe to both
startrek/c/newsandbreakingbad/c/newsHonestly, I think a better idea is to separate human-readable names and formal names. say, the community ID is a random 128 bit string (could also be a public key if you do something neat with cryptography) and then the community’s human readable name is a mutable variable that can be set or change, and doesn’t have to be unique
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