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But here’s the problem. I don’t want to have to use 300 different Netflix apps. I don’t want to juggle 15 email boxes. I don’t want 7 different music apps. People don’t want to have to think about 100 different lemmy instances.
I’m all for federation and decentralization, but we have a human condition problem where people just want to use one thing, the best one, and nothing else.
Back in the old hotline file sharing days, you had the concept servers + trackers + clients. Servers could list themselves on many trackers at once, and be found by clients from any of them. If a tracker goes down, you can still be found by any other. I liked that concept better with regard to being decentralized, because a popular tracker or server didn’t overshadow everyone else, and a big tracker or server going down didn’t take out anyone else. It was more of a mesh with many independent nodes.
You don't need an account for every instance you want to see content on. I mostly don't think about different instances when I am browsing, because federated content already shows up on my feed a lot.
No I think you missed the point- to avoid the situation of a single lemmy instance going down taking everyone’s communities with it, it would force users to post their content to many different instances because posters dont self host the content.
That is a problem that could potentially be solved through better federation of communities so that different communities with the same theme, ie. gaming, would show up as one with the contents synchronized between each other.
But I am no programmer and don't know wether this would be feasible to do.
True. And indeed there are many ways to solve this in the code. The thread is more to focus on social solutions that can be taken within the confines of the software as it is.
That’s a classic problem of low-tech people using a tool that exploits their lack of tech competency. They search for “offgrid” and get [email protected] instead of [email protected]. They don’t know to use lemmyverse.net to look for better matches to their community search.
Nonetheless, you’ve given no solution. The problem needs a solution. What’s the solution for individual users?