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   Fediverse Report (fediversereport@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Aug-2023 02:38:19 JST Fediverse Report

   Last Week in the #fediverse - episode 31

   This week I talk about defederation on Lemmy. Multiple servers have decided to defederate from each other for a variety of reasons. Underlying it all is a culture that has experienced rapid growth recently, and now the hard part of community building is beginning, including figuring out how and when defederation is a good tool to use.

   In other news, some more clues on Threads and ActivityPub, and more!

   Read it at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-the-fediverse-episode-31/

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     maegul (maegul@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Aug-2023 02:59:43 JST maegul

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     @fediversereport Brief comment on the whole lemmy defederation culture stuff ...

     A dynamic you didn't mention (I think) is that having multiple accounts on different instances is relatively easy, inconsequential and, apparently, common. I've seen users say they have different accounts for different sets of interests. So I'm sure a number of users happily and easily reroute around defederation.

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     Fediverse Report (fediversereport@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Aug-2023 03:06:07 JST Fediverse Report

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     • maegul

     @maegul Yeah thats a good point, thanks!

     It's definitely a subject I want to come back to in the future, there is a lot more to be said around it. Like you said, the dynamics of link aggregators make multiple accounts significantly more logical than it does on microblogging platforms. My expectation is that this might contribute to Lemmy and Kbin splintering into multiple -verses, each with their own identity

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     Fediverse Report (fediversereport@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Aug-2023 16:10:32 JST Fediverse Report

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     • Erlend Sogge Heggen

     @erlend Yes, that's correct, thanks!

     In the case of dbzer0, I choose to simplify it a little bit. The biggest community on dbzer0, !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com, has over 40k subscribers, while it's second biggest community (!adhd@lemmy.dbzer0.com) is only one tenth of the size at 4k subs. So defedding from only the biggest community has an outsized impact on the rest of the server as well.

     But for sure, the granularity in defedding is interesting and worth a followup!

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     Erlend Sogge Heggen (erlend@writing.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Aug-2023 16:10:33 JST Erlend Sogge Heggen

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     @fediversereport I could have misunderstood, but in reading some of these defed announcements I got the impression that Lemmy.world had actually. just defederated from specific Communities (subs) of dbzer0, not the entire instance.

     Which, if that’s the case, is a really cool feature of Lemmy and the threadiverse at large, as it allows for more granular degrees of defederation.