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Obviously a few years ago, the API changes caused the reddit community mods to strike, and caused a mass-blackout of most reddit core communities. Eventually Reddit removed a handful of mod teams on some notable subreddits and caused the rest to chicken-out. But it did birth the Fediverse properly.

I suspect Reddit will make another step at some point which causes another comparable exodus. This time, if they do, the Fediverse is far better developed to handle it. What do you imagine it might be?

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[–] Skavau@piefed.social 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I’m still confused about multiple instances, why bifurcate the community (are there multiple instances of knitting communities on lemmy?).

To prevent the centralisation of power into a single instance. If Lemmy.world was the only instance and the owners and admins would have full power. Because the fediverse is centralised, if the instance goes bad - or some moderators on communities there go bad, they can be replaced on another instance.

(are there multiple instances of knitting communities on lemmy?).

Yes, but none of them are active.

[–] mehquestion@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

No I totally understand the benefit of decentralization; however on the user end, I just want to consume content.

To that end, can I post on one knitting instance and that'll reach all knitting communities on Lemmy? How do I get the most engagement, which instance is the most popular

(and by the way, knitting was a random example on my end, but I am surprised that there aren't any active instances to what I would assume, is a fairly popular hobby).

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

To that end, can I post on one knitting instance and that’ll reach all knitting communities on Lemmy? How do I get the most engagement, which instance is the most popular

No. Not through Lemmy. But Piefed, which reads Lemmy communities - has feeds that users can make that combines communities into a single feed. Incidentally, I have made a knitting feed.

(and by the way, knitting was a random example on my end, but I am surprised that there aren’t any active instances to what I would assume, is a fairly popular hobby).

Tbh Lemmy/Piefed is pretty nerd orientated. It is popular, but not with the audiences here. In any case, there are centralisation efforts on here from time to time designed to unify communities of the same topic across multiple instances by locking cloned communities. When there is demand, but split, this does happen.

[–] Marvie@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Maybe somehow the apps should have the simplified version of that , where you subscribe to a topic , and get multiple instances. Lenny is inherently more complicated than a centralized app

[–] Blaze@lazysoci.al 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Piefed is indeed better for that: https://piefed.social/feeds

You can subscribe to those feeds, and see all the communities they list in one view

[–] Marvie@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] Blaze@lazysoci.al 1 points 3 days ago
[–] Blaze@lazysoci.al 1 points 3 days ago

I have made a knitting feed.

You might want to link it to show what it could look like

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 2 points 3 days ago

Here is the knitting feed as an example.