Communities on different instances about the same topic should have the option to essentially federate so a post on one appears on all of them and opening any of them shows you the comments from all of them. This way when lemmy.world is down its not a big deal because posting to any news community federates to all of the communities instead of barely having people see your post. Federation could be decided by the community mods and the comments can have a little “/c/communityname@instance.name” on it so you know which community the comment was originally posted on.

    • 👁️👄👁️@lemm.eeEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Definitely not.

      For every individual community you would have to pay for a domain, maintain the instance, keep it updated, keeping it secure, and keeping it paid. That’s really difficult already with a single server, let alone multiple for multiple servers and domains. These are also more points where data from other servers can be cached and get hacked/leaked or outright incompatible Lemmy versions.

      It’d also still have the problem of multiple communities with the same topic, so it’s not solving anything.

      How do you expect people to migrate to Lemmy if these are the ridiculous hoops they’re expected to do to start a community. Instead, they can just go to reddit and click a “create subreddit” button instead. What option do you think they’d choose?

    • Corgana@startrek.websiteEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I’ve had that thought too- it would guarantee instance owners are dedicated to making one community as awesome as they can, but at the same time the current structure means non-technically inclined people are able to have a home off-Reddit as long as their values align with the instance owner.

      That said, Startrek.website is kinda doing a focused-topic thing with different communities and rules within to achieve different goals working with the same subject matter. I think it could serve as a good model for themed instances.