Might wanna google how federated services work and think about what having different servers with similar user bases might mean for duplication. This is a patently absurd request to make on a service like this.
I would expect it to mean that there is different content in the communities because they are different in nuanced ways. Having people who consistently, intentionally post duplicate content to these communities dilutes those differences, turning them all into copies of each other.
Tabe it to the extreme: If every instance had a /c/technology that had all of the exact same posts on them, what is the point? That’s why I think this behavior should be discouraged.
Then you risk the same thing you risk on big unified sites. What if I want to talk about Star Trek but break an arbitrary rule on startrek.website? Should I just be banned from discussing Star Trek on all other instances? The entire reason for federation is that each instance can abide by its own rules and norms while also sharing content. If you want a unified service, post on a unified service.
Might wanna google how federated services work and think about what having different servers with similar user bases might mean for duplication. This is a patently absurd request to make on a service like this.
I would expect it to mean that there is different content in the communities because they are different in nuanced ways. Having people who consistently, intentionally post duplicate content to these communities dilutes those differences, turning them all into copies of each other.
Tabe it to the extreme: If every instance had a /c/technology that had all of the exact same posts on them, what is the point? That’s why I think this behavior should be discouraged.
Then you risk the same thing you risk on big unified sites. What if I want to talk about Star Trek but break an arbitrary rule on startrek.website? Should I just be banned from discussing Star Trek on all other instances? The entire reason for federation is that each instance can abide by its own rules and norms while also sharing content. If you want a unified service, post on a unified service.
You are agreeing with me.
No I’m not. I’m saying that /c/StarTrek should be allowed to exist on multiple servers and the same link should be posted to each one.
Then why even have different servers?
For different user bases. Its the users that matter. Your server is very different from my server.