People interested in actual federation would probably never use ATProto anyway

Nice article

How applicable the concepts of decentralisation and federation are to the ATmosphere is debatable, but they are used as an approximation for the core question: how is power distributed in the network? And Bluesky and the ATmosphere make it clear that technological architecture can only help so much here: Sure, you can be completely independent of Bluesky PBC on the ATmosphere, as everything is open. But in the end, 99% of users are exclusively on infrastructure owned by Bluesky PBC. No technological architecture can compensate for that kind of the power distribution.

There’s a balance to be made. Ultimate defederation is everyone on their own 1-user community.

At the moment, there are plenty of similar communities which coexist, struggling to stay active on their own, and could join just to have more activity. Note that I’m against the current LW-centralization trend, that’s another topic: https://lemm.ee/post/30444527

Example

• !android@lemmy.world and !android@lemdro.id
• !movies@lemmy.world and !movies@lemm.ee

Nice article. Hopefully other universities follow.

Seems quite active, they release every few weeks.

Fedia.io if you want to have a look

Good to hear!

Good news, well done @flamingos@feddit.uk

Sharkey allows it

can import your exported posts from Mastodon and most of its forks, Pleroma / Akkoma, Misskey / Firefish and forks, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, including attachments (threading may not work perfectly, and other people’s replies to your posts may not get imported)

https://docs.joinsharkey.org/docs/comparison/misskey/

Thanks for sharing. Reminds me of a few memes on !fedimemes@feddit.uk with their fake federation

@gabe@literature.cafe , @Arthur@literature.cafe , how are you guys doing over there?

!skincareaddiction@sh.itjust.works

It would be different if it e.g. had a function to make older posts resurface and stay relevant longer to foster longer conversations

“New comments” filters help with that

with lots of empty zones of nothingness.

Indeed. Trying to solve this with !fedigrow@lemm.ee, but it takes time

I agree with you, but not sure if that’s what the person above meant.

But yeah, centralization should happen. We could probably close 95% of the existing communities and regroup on the last 5%

!football@lemmy.world for instance covers most of the needs for that sport

It is on your profile. Do you have “Undetermined” selected in your language settings?

Lemmy.cafe is a single admin instance, it is one accident away from joining the graveyard of long-gone instances: https://piefed.social/post/253109

Also, using the beta version of the software isn’t usually recommended, as this might ironically lead to federation issues

What community is it?

No worries. Feel free to start a new thread there if you feel so, there might have been new communities in the meantime, and it’s always good to have a refresher once in a while

No idea about that point specifically unfortunately. My idea was more to discuss the instance choice rather than the blocking.

Is there anything that they can do about it? It’s not that I am against telling them but… why complain about something over which they have little to no control?

Bringing this up to the attention of the instance members. If that happens too much, people might consider leaving to another instance. It’s this process that’s helping people to move to instances that are stable and with responsive admins.

It’s common, it’s expected, and at this point

It’s not

I think that no instance other than Lemmy.World itself has any “expectation” to be fully up2date, specifically wrt content that is on Lemmy.World itself?

See my comment above with lemmy.zip, lemm.ee, feddit.org being uptodate with LW

I could show you the same for the other 15 instances from the top 20, but you get the point