A user checking out one of these URLs does not want to filter only local post on that instance.
On all instances, this url should mean “show me all /c/piracy on all federated instances”
If you really mean /c/piracy only on that instance, then add something to the url.
The current convention breaks the most important aspect of federation and makes its vestigial appendage.
The current way has user asking question /c/piracy, but on which instance ?
So now they’ll all join the same instance . You wouldn’t post anywhere else since no one would every see it.
It’s a recipe for centralization.
I think this is obvious to most users, were deal with “voat with extra steps” here
I have heard this meme before, lemmy is not email
Also application that go against user intuition, start with a permanent handicap.
But in this case, this is fatal, you cannot learn your way into making lemmy.example.com/c/piracy should you all /c/piracy on all instance
The functionallity simply is missing and the consequence is everything will be on the lemmy.biginstance.com/c/thebigcommunity and everything else will be invisible (and probably defederated outright as moderation becomes increasingly untenable)
Technology skills don’t work by intuition; they work by learning.
People say “intuitive” when they mean “familiar to something I’ve already learned”.
For example, novice programmers often say that a programming language that resembles the first language they learned “is intuitive”, while a language that looks different “is unintuitive”.
People who learned C first, used to argue that Python was “unintuitive” because it doesn’t use
{}curly braces around code blocks.That’s not intuition. That’s familiarity. Once they become familiar with Python, they no longer talk about the absence of
{}around code blocks as “unintuitive”.Here, there are users coming from centralized services like Reddit, Facebook, or Twitter. One of the things that they have to learn is that this is not a centralized service; you have to care about what instance you’re looking at, or what instance a community is hosted on.