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?

    • Serge Tarkovski
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      5 years ago

      So basically you want a distributed community, like, for example, what happens in the blockchain world. Anyway, you depend on the mods then, if not on the admins of a particular server. In either case, it’s all about people in the end. Also, what if someone decides that the mods of a particular “unique” place have broken things up / corrupted the original idea etc.? Where to create another, better place if this one has already been occupied?

        • Serge Tarkovski
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          5 years ago

          It is a problem. Though I don’t know how big the problem is, but maybe it’s significant. That’s why I’m saying about community merging and replication in another comment to this post. We can divide the problem into two: having a backup in case of technical issues with the main instance, and community ownership / trust things. The first one is truly technical, the second one is about people and has no easy solution IMHO. What if the owner decides to kill the community entirely? Maybe that replication thing can help, one can set up a replica / mirror of a community even without notifying the owner, and that replica can become a reincarnated community instance once the original one is dropped. Not sure though how to backup user accounts in case of a dropped server with those accounts.