While i appreciate the work put towards a healthier Lemmy experience for everyone, I'm also concerned about the consolidation efforts happening lately.

I agree with streetfestival that it comes off as pushing towards centralisation of communities within instances that are considered "acceptable" (by whom, for whom, what criteria?), which to me goes directly against the idea of federation.

!privacy@lemmy.ca is perfectly fine and was actually the community people recommended when .ml was considered not reliable anymore. Why make people move again?

The goal is to have users have a choice, not force people to use four to five "main" instances and go back to a Reddit style of ownership when it comes to communities. Until we have an option to federate and share comments between communities, I'd rather "live and let live" than force a specific usage of Lemmy upon users.