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I truly hope this type of hierarchical thinking can stay fun and not create the kind of grating pomposity that pervades every bloody animalistic thing. I want us to grow beyond childish competitiveness.
Lemmy.world or bust
Only if the instance wars are described with a star wars screen crawl
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I would prefer people to be spread across different forums and form their own identity
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SA vs Fark vs Ebaums all over again. Can't wait.
Does it really matter? So long as they remain federalized you can still access and interact with those instances.
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I remember the war between /r/me_irl and /r/meirl back in the day on Reddit
Me_irl gang for life personally 😤
so the owners and mods of instances will have to compete to provide a good experience. I don’t see a problem with this
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As long as there are individuals, groups will be sought after and created based on the need of belonging and the need to different from another group
Were there mailserver wars?
Yes. In the mid 90's, anyone with an AOL or Juno email address was a noob. Many people on the internet had .edu email addresses, because it was pretty hard to get internet access unless you were affiliated with a university. The rise of Hotmail and Yahoo mail ended up removing the association between email address and internet service provider, to the point where people who were using ISP-provided email addresses by the early 2000's were seen as unsophisticated and usually older.
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I just hope that most people will be open-minded and that most instances will federate. But that's probably being optimistic.
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A lot of comments are assuming a negative outcome but there could be some fun and positive 'wars'. Best Instance Photoshop Battle anyone?
Can we just go back to BBS where you have dial in with your land line to post on a board? The difficulty of use acted like an awesome protection from any community growing too large too fast and was super easy to moderate. I just want to pull my socks up to my knees, yell at the clouds, and dial in to the NG BBS...
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Or, just make it fun friendly competition and start a quiz show like tournament of teams from each instance, no need for war.
Absolutely. I don't think that's a bad thing.
What I do worry about somewhat is multiple forks of the codebase that differ so much as to cause bugs when instances try to interoperate.
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Tbh I’m still confused on the differences and have literally zero attachment to the one I chose
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Already in it. Where've YOU been? I'm in the trenches here for lemmy.one
this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2023
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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
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