this post was submitted on 09 Dec 2023
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago

what benefit would having a federated version bring?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I think that is one use case that I wouldn't want to see the service split up. It's strength is that all the data is in one place and little fragments wont vanish id instances go down

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

I do see the problem that a valuable set of global data is ultimately held by a US-American organization. I do know regional subsidiaries exist and in the case of Europe often seem to be run by public organizations, so that offsets this problem. I also wouldn't know how federation would work with something like inaturalist. Maybe keep instances of regional data? I could see a use case there.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

There is a "iNaturalist network", not sure if that counts https://www.inaturalist.org/sites/network