I like that Lemmy can post on other instances (communities on other instances), but thinking about it, would that not present a potential issue with centralizing information about a topic on one instance?

I know it’s kind of similar to having themed Mastodon instances (and I also don’t really understand those), but it seems like a potential issue?

I know multiple instances can have the same communities, but that then seems like fracturing the conversation?

Could this just be due to my limited knowledge/use of the fediverse?

  • darkfoe@lemmy.serverfail.party
    3·
    1 year ago

    Fracturing the conversation also isn’t a super bad thing. From my end, I subscribe to many of the same type of topic across multiple instances, and it’s seamless to me for reading and replying. If one instance suddenly went away I’m sure users would quickly migrate to one of the duplicates.

    • jax@lemmy.cloudhub.socialOP
      2·
      1 year ago

      That’s true, it has been pretty seamless. Though, for example, my instance doesn’t seem to have any of the comments from this thread, and I’m not really sure why…

      I might have spoken too soon, checking again and I can see them now. Also, interestingly, my mastodon account is following my Lemmy account and also able to see my main post plus the comments/responses, which is pretty slick.

      • darkfoe@lemmy.serverfail.party
        2·
        1 year ago

        I run my own, so I know this pain well. One thing I had to do was make sure I selected EVERY language in the admin settings, and in my user settings I selected nothing. Then it took about a day for my server to federate out better and stabilise. Now I get new posts no problem, though stuff from the past doesn’t show up.

        I know the language issue is a weird one, and it’s being actively worked on in newer releases.

        • jax@lemmy.cloudhub.socialOP
          1·
          1 year ago

          Ah, maybe that’s part of the problem I’m seeing. I’ll have to check my language settings. Do you select a language per comment/post then? I’m not entirely sure the port of that…

          • darkfoe@lemmy.serverfail.party
            0·
            1 year ago

            I don’t even touch the button right now to avoid problems until things are fixed up. You can also see what instances you’ve federated with by clicking the “Instances” link on the bottom of your instances page. Eventually the list grows pretty large all on its own and content comes in faster I find.

              • darkfoe@lemmy.serverfail.party
                2·
                1 year ago

                Yeah the list keeps growing! There are a lot of us with single-user instances that exist. I prefer it because even when one instance falls down from load I can still read some stuff, and I have a copy of the posts in the event one fails/shuts down so I never lose any tech knowledge I may refer back to later.

                • jax@lemmy.cloudhub.socialOP
                  1·
                  1 year ago

                  That makes a lot of sense! Awesome, I think that negates a lot of the concerns I had at the start of this thread. Turns out people have already thought about these issues lol

                  • darkfoe@lemmy.serverfail.party
                    1·
                    1 year ago

                    Mastrodon migration answered a lot of these questions thankfully too, so Lemmy gets the benefits of it. So far mainly what I’ve seen have been performance growing pains more than anything