I don’t like it, but imho it’s a reflection of an architectural flaw of Lemmy.
The fediverse should have distributed channels. …but “distributed” doesn’t need to mean, every channel sits on an isolated instance/island and the only way to share a message between instances/islands - is to duplicate content.
A better solution would be that channels would be globally unique (ie there would be just one “til” channel). People would subscribe to it, and each instance would be the “custodian” or keeper of their users comments and posts. The “custodians” could/would moderate their users posts and could “defederate” from other instances (if they don’t like how others are moderating their users).
This would avoid situations where one channel gains popularity, but the instance closes shop and the fediverse is left scrambling to fill in the gaps.
I don’t like it, but imho it’s a reflection of an architectural flaw of Lemmy.
The fediverse should have distributed channels. …but “distributed” doesn’t need to mean, every channel sits on an isolated instance/island and the only way to share a message between instances/islands - is to duplicate content.
A better solution would be that channels would be globally unique (ie there would be just one “til” channel). People would subscribe to it, and each instance would be the “custodian” or keeper of their users comments and posts. The “custodians” could/would moderate their users posts and could “defederate” from other instances (if they don’t like how others are moderating their users).
This would avoid situations where one channel gains popularity, but the instance closes shop and the fediverse is left scrambling to fill in the gaps.