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Re:Reddit CEO Says Mods Too Powerful, Plans to Weaken After ... by sandyarmstrong on Friday June 16, 2023 @11:21AM (#36358108)
You can have an account on one instance and subscribe to a community on another. There's no need for every instance to have a "memes" community, though there will undoubtedly be more than one. Then you can subscribe to the one(s) you like best. Not unlike how Reddit tends to have multiple subreddits for popular things with different mods, norms, and feels.
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Re:Reddit CEO Says Mods Too Powerful, Plans to Weaken After ... by tsimionescu on Friday June 16, 2023 @11:50AM (#36358682)
It is unlike that, because it scales completely differently. Basically what the GP is saying is that it's not possible (economically) in the Fediverse to create a community as large as, say, /r/funny.

Basically the federation is happening at the wrong level for that, since the whole community needs to be on a single server.

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Re:Reddit CEO Says Mods Too Powerful, Plans to Weaken After ... by sandyarmstrong on Friday June 16, 2023 @12:06PM (#36358982)
Well, I was attempting to reply to questions in the second half of the post.

That being said, I don't think communities of that size should really be the goal in the fediverse.

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