Right? I’m still trying to figure it all out but I don’t get what the benefit would be to having a username on a big instance. Seems like bragging rights would go to people who have their own instance.
But also the op didn’t say it was a win… they just stated the fact. So there’s that.
That is actually a bigger benefit than just some mild UI inconvenience. It saves resources on both your instance (well, there just per user resources) and the instance where the community is hosted.
There are some real issues around federation that are kind-of working against the whole system right now. I have my own instance that I am trying to grow, but I would have to manually connect to every community to see whats happening in the broader fediverse. Its isolating and making it impossible to grow the community.
Federation in lemmy needs to be reconsidered. Instances shouldnt be trying to become monoliths like lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, or beehub. Lemmys should be niche focused and then sharing that focus with the fediverse. But federation/ discovery need to be re-imagined for that to make sense.
As it stands, discovery makes it so that the style of growth which is preferred from a content discovery is a few very large lemmy instances instead of many many medium and small instances. The result is a more fragile, less diverse, less stable fediverse.
This is not the win that you think it is…
Right? I’m still trying to figure it all out but I don’t get what the benefit would be to having a username on a big instance. Seems like bragging rights would go to people who have their own instance.
But also the op didn’t say it was a win… they just stated the fact. So there’s that.
the only benefit i see is having more communties already federated without the need to manually federate it yourself
That is actually a bigger benefit than just some mild UI inconvenience. It saves resources on both your instance (well, there just per user resources) and the instance where the community is hosted.
There are some real issues around federation that are kind-of working against the whole system right now. I have my own instance that I am trying to grow, but I would have to manually connect to every community to see whats happening in the broader fediverse. Its isolating and making it impossible to grow the community.
Federation in lemmy needs to be reconsidered. Instances shouldnt be trying to become monoliths like lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, or beehub. Lemmys should be niche focused and then sharing that focus with the fediverse. But federation/ discovery need to be re-imagined for that to make sense.
As it stands, discovery makes it so that the style of growth which is preferred from a content discovery is a few very large lemmy instances instead of many many medium and small instances. The result is a more fragile, less diverse, less stable fediverse.