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The content on all the communities seem different.

Why didn't the "copycats" get the "this community name has already been taken" message?

It was bad enough at The Other Place finding one overlooked sub about one of your interests.

Now you have to find every single community in every single instance if you hope to talk about your topic?

I mean, look at this:

No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world

No Stupid Questions@kbin.social

No Stupid Questions@lemmy.ca

No Stupid Questions@mander.xyz

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[–] Delphia@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The issue as I see it is that once Meta or someone similar can start pointing to far right instances, child abuse materials or anything of the like and start painting Lemmy as a whole as the new 4chan "radicalising and grooming the children" only to release their "new app" which is just their instance then the "free fediverse" is going to BE the fringe.

Large companies will have no desire to be involved with "that place" because the sanitised, community guidelines having, data farming goliath will have 2 billion users. Why risk the bad pr?

[–] hitmyspot@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why risk the bad PR of being on meta when you can be on your own instance that any other instance can access.

It's like email. People don't hold Google responsible if someone emails them with profanity.

I expect there will be sanitised versions and free for all versions. Moderation will differentiate but it may be that it's send regulated, like porn on NSFW instances.

One thing I've noticed is that I've blocked the NSFW instance from my feed and any comments from there are blocked too. So users from instances with a lot of NSFW content may find they have less engagement. L it may be that more regulated instances have less freedom of speech but more people to listen.

Likely the realiry will be somewhere in the middle.

[–] Delphia@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I think you have a very optimistic outlook on people. We understand how the fediverse works but I wouldnt trust most people to differentiate between the app and the content it serves.