I agree everyone should participate in moderation. The interface would facilitate and encourage it. That is the original purpose of likes, a sorting algorithm. Moderation is a layer on top of that.
Currently, Lemmy encourages all user to use the same server and to go to a specific server for a specific community. This is a flaw in the federation system.
Lemmy.ca should not be the only place you can post and be read by /c/Montreal for example
Would this largely be solved by having forums about Montreal on multiple instances, and a configurable view (like “multireddits”) that presented them together to the user?
I agree everyone should participate in moderation. The interface would facilitate and encourage it. That is the original purpose of likes, a sorting algorithm. Moderation is a layer on top of that.
Currently, Lemmy encourages all user to use the same server and to go to a specific server for a specific community. This is a flaw in the federation system.
Lemmy.ca should not be the only place you can post and be read by /c/Montreal for example
Would this largely be solved by having forums about Montreal on multiple instances, and a configurable view (like “multireddits”) that presented them together to the user?
Yes, on each instance “all” should represent a agglomeration of all communities and this should be the default view for all instances.
Instances should be your gateway to the fediverse before they are a repository of local content.