I am with you as a user, but also an instance administrator. Forcing our hosted communities together with federated communities would take away nearly all motivation I have to host an instance in the first place.
Allowing /c/anti_thing to direct all of their users to posts in /c/thing is a bad idea.
Personally I have never viewed the "separation problem" as a problem, but the single largest benefit of federation/decentralization.
Hi, one of startrek.website's admins here:
If I'm understanding this "feature" correctly, it feels antithetical to what I view as a fundamental aspect of the fediverse, which is diversity of moderation via decentralization. We came to the fediverse with the explicit purpose of escaping the tyranny of the majority that Reddit forces upon mod teams. This feels like a large step on the path to remaking reddit "with extra steps" and would probably be a deal breaker (for me personally at least).
I think a better way to implement a similar feature, is to give mods an ability to "boost" posts into their communities (with consent from the other mod team to prevent brigading). That maintains the separation while still allowing mods to make exceptions and consolidate comment threads where they deem appropriate.
Would you like the admins to permaban them?
We're not opposed to hosting non-Star Trek communities as long as they adhere to instance guidelines, but before you move you should know that the federation gap with .world is closing and should be finally caught up before the end of the week.
I don't want to be a mod here anymore 😭
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Should be fixed now. Try it again (clear your cache first).
Ugh thanks for letting me know, does it happen every time you click it? And would you say the problem has been less frequent overall?
Just for posts (in your user settings) not comments yet.
We're aware thanks, something went wrong in the latest update, it'll be fixed soon.
Edit: fixed now
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Allowing Lemmygrad to have it's own "books" community looks like a feature to me, not a problem. The terminally online tend to overpower any other conversation. IMO, we should work to preserve a diversity of perspectives. If all discussions are forced to be centralized we've just recreated Reddit with extra steps.