As the Fediverse grows more and more, rules and regulations become more important. For example, is Lemmy GDPR compliant? If not, are admins aware of the possible consequence? What does this mean for the growth of Lemmy?
Edit: The question “is Lemmy GDPR compliant” should mean, does the software stack provide admins with means to be GDPR compliant.
Edit2: Similar discussion with many interesting opinions on lemmy.ml by /u/infamousbelgian@waste-of.space–> https://lemmy.ml/post/1409164
Edit3: direct link to philpo great answer–>https://feddit.de/comment/840786
It’s not going to be a problem to find the communities. Since people on arandominstance.com won’t be posting on arandominstance.com/c/interestingtopic
They will know if they did, no one would every see it, except for the dozen other people on arandominstance.com
Instead, they’ll Google for the biggest /c/interestingtopic , find on what instance it is and go post there
We don’t get to the part of having difficulty finding them because they don’t get created in the first place
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I mean, 600 users that’s a lot and yet you look at
https://slrpnk.net/c/knitting
And there isn’t one post.
This is what I mean. Your knitting users have to go off instance to https://lemmy.world/c/knitting
In a working system based on federation, it wouldn’t matter in what instance you make a /c/knitting post, it would be seen on all instance’s /c/knitting
There is no indication this big will every get fixed, and many inducations this is against Lemmy developpement philosophy. I have seen no indication of kbin doing differently either.
Either you post on the big /c/knitting , or nobody (less than 1% of 1% of all Lemmy users) will see your post before it goes stale (72 hrs)
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The problem is that it’s easy to filter only local content. But the current system is biased for local content first. So paradoxically this means local content will wither and die because no one will see it.
Content should be global first and local second. That way, you can post wherever you like and it will get global exposure.
This way users will not be incentivized to only post in the biggest community on the biggest instance, while leaving everywhere else a desert.
The current way it’s built will recreate a centralized Reddit like with few fragmented communities
The problem with multireddit, why they were not able to fulfill to promise of bringing multiple communities together was that only a minuscule subset of users used them.
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