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The free fediverses should support concentric federations of instances (privacy.thenexus.today)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/7235896

Here's how Kat Marchá describes caracoles:

"you essentially ask to join concentric federations of instances ... with smaller caracoles able to vote to federate with entire other caracoles.

And @ophiocephalic's "fedifams" are a similar idea:

Communities could align into fedifams based on whatever conditions of identity, philosophy or interest are relevant to them. Instances allied into fedifams could share resources and mutually support each other in many way"

The idea's a natural match for community-focused, anti-surveillance capitalism free fediverses, fits in well with the Networked Communities model and helps address scalability of consent-based federation.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Very much agreed that part of the problem relates to scale -- and, great analogy! It's an interesting thought experiment: if each school had an Lemmy instance, how would they work together to host communities and make it easy for people (in all the schools) to find the communities they're interested in? If they each had a Mastodon instance, how would they share blocklists? And so on.

And great point about the different dynamics between large instances and smaller / more focused instances. There's always a question of which communities an instance sees itself as in service to -- and similarly there's always a question of which instances and communities the team developing the software is in service to.