I did get permission to share this private message. For the record, I loath having public Lemmy topics being discussed in private messages. I created this community to get all this OUT in the OPEN.
I already made my decision on NOT changing privacy policy. But now I see that the very idea of having more than one “Subscribed” list for an end-user is raising threats of defederation!
I invited them to this community, but they keep insisting on private messages instead…
The top messages is me, my reply:
The server-side feature people are using now is to create multiple logins. Lemmy platform is bloated with the same human beings running around creating logins all over the place… the actual count of “people” is inflated by this.
- Login, view one list of subscribed for “games”
- Log-out
- Login second account, view subscribed list for “news”
This is already being done, and the whole purpose of a multi-reddit feature it to allow more than one subscribed list without logging out and back in.
Smarpthone clients are going to implement features to filter and have multiple subscribed lists.
People are already creating multiple Lemmy accounts just to have different subscribed list. Smarpthone apps are making it easier to switch between logins. I personally used RedReader to switch between different subscribed/home page on Reddit for a very long time (decade).
Smarpthone apps often don’t even show the sidebar of a community when people read postings…
Seems to me an extremist stance. Why not just restrict posting to people who answer a consent form before being allowed to post into your community? Those kind of features would be more specific of a response to the concern that people don’t read the rules before posting/commenting.
Tbh, if they feel the need to defederate, they certainly can and will likely see their communities wither on the vine. It seems more like an instance admin who thinks too highly of their communities and too lowly of users as reddit saw no such degradation after multi-reddits were introduced and I think you’ve pointed out the downsides to not having a similar feature
I have been having discussions with other lemmy users around the topic of decentralization and federation. One thing I found interesting was that some people want to know the instance for the community for a link before clicking on it because different communities have (apparently drastically) different rules. This understanding might pose some issues with a multipass feature but could probably be mitigated a few ways, like showing the instance name if not already shown and maybe letting this group of moderators for the multipass be able to develop (common) rules for the multipass.
But then again, thats making decentralization centralized. But on the other hand, these are features people want. The group moderation idea is a good one. Is this an open source project? I would love to take a peek at the source if so and learn a bit more about how lemmy works. If it’s not open source no worries.
