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In another conversation about the server literature.cafe potentially defederating from the Hexbear server, I found this comment chain by @Janvier to be a worthwhile read. He makes the case for smaller servers to defederate from many large servers, and not only Hexbear, as a way for smaller communities to grow organically. It is an interesting and different vision of Lemmy; many smaller ‘islands’ that are only marginally connected, instead of one big platform that is tightly connected between the different servers.

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[–] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is an insanely educational thread. Janvier really knows a lot about the behaviors and health of online communities.

If you're transgender or non-binary and are looking to connect with others over North Korea apologia, there's not a better place on the web to be.

Lmfao what a quip.

[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago

I thought you might find this interesting, here is the thread quoted (you probably all read it, but still): https://literature.cafe/comment/825554

[–] gabe 5 points 1 year ago

OOO interesting! So that's where some new users are coming from I presume. It was honestly an excellent post.

[–] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Janvier 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for the pings and support, both of you.

I wrote the thread in a mature post that was already several days old, primarily as an exercise in organizing my thoughts. I didn't think anyone besides @gabe would see it, so I'm really pleased it has reached a larger audience and brought more attention to the instance.

[–] gabe 2 points 1 year ago

Apparently it got shared quite a bit around Mastodon