You can start by adding a description in the sidebar, and try to get a few people to post on your community by asking about this on !asklemmy@lemmy.world

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Instance Target gets linked when someone from instance Source subscribes to a community of Target

Defederating = blocking in this context, defederated instances show up in the blocked instance list

Language evolves I guess

Edit: probably not what you were looking for, but still

Lemmy devs did AMAs a while back on !announcements@lemmy.ml

https://lemmy.ml/post/11023519?scrollToComments=true

I see where you come from, but using one instance still makes it active, encouraging new joiners looking for an instance to join it too.

LW got so popular because it had most of the users at some point, and that only went further over time.

No worries!

Crowd sourced curation is always nice

Indeed, but there are also people on Lemmy.ml who I appreciate.

@TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml for instance, and there are a few others. I mean, the Lemmy devs are on that instance, don’t we want to be able to talk to them, even if we can disagree with them?

Not sure I’m following you, should they not then advocate for Lemmy.zip to defederate? That would be more effective for them

Nice initiative!

One of my favourite movies

Thanks for sharing!

That’s definitely an option. Other people might prefer to keep access to them.

Blocking at the personal level allows people to choose

Seems like you got some advice in the end!

Great advice

Good point

Good luck defederating from lemmy.ml and losing, among others

• !linux@lemmy.ml
• !opensource@lemmy.ml
• !privacy@lemmy.ml
• !degoogle@lemmy.ml

There are alternatives that we’ve been trying to push (see the few posts on !fedigrow@lemm.ee ):

• !linux@programming.dev
• !freesoftware@lemmy.zip
• !privacy@lemmy.ca

But network effect is still around.

Blocking seems enough for most people.

So like https://lemmyverse.net/communities ?

What I think would be better would be adding tagging and taking federation a step further. Every post needs a ‘tag’; we steal that part from mastadon. It can have many, but it needs at least one, say #politics in this example.

Tags also bring issues from a moderation perspective. Who can decide who can use tags to label which type content? Seems another way to have everyone spamming trending tags on all type of contents without control. I think tags work better on a microblog format than community format, where you can potentially reach out everyone following that community/tag much easily than crossposting each time.

As far as an abuse vector. Thats just hang wringing. IF your mods are that abusive for a large sub, you’ve got way bigger issues. Which, if it did ever happen, is something that “forking” would solve. Mod on a power trip? No problem. Fork the community.

I was more thinking about people wanting to ruin things by importing huge communities to small instances, consuming their space and resources, and making it confusing to people to know which one is the “legit” community.

And if you limit this feature to admins, then requesting communities is already possible from admins on most of the instances, so that covers the transfer. Fork/split (what is the difference, btw), as I said, can be done manually now.

Importing a community is the one use case remaining, but I see why it’s not a priority for the Lemmy devs, there is bigger fish to fry at the moment (multicommunities for instance)

What is the link ? Feel free to have a look at !fedigrow@lemm.ee to grow your community