Cowbee [he/they]

Sure, but this community will belong to an instance though.

I understand what you want, but you’ll never reach everyone on Lemmy, as there are no instances that are not defederated from anyone. This is a structural aspect of Lemmy’s federated model. You can find different opinions all over Lemmy, but any community is going to be subject to its mods and admins for the instance, and a “multicomm” will still run into issues with federation.

Communities don’t need to grow, though, my point is more that different instances have their own flavors of the same concepts and that’s a benefit.

Federation is one side of the equation, the fact that no one person controls it relies upon the fact that it isn’t centralized into few communities. It’s a double-edged sword, the same benefit is also potentially a drawback for others.

I disagree, actually. The issue here is relying on communities to be active, rather than instances with a healthy size and sorting by new rather than active. Hexbear has a bunch of communities, but people sort by New so any post will have some traction.

Lemmy works best when instances rely on themselves, and not federation. Federation is a bonus, not the point itself. Thinking of this massive fediverse as a single entity would mean it’s probably better to use Reddit, anyways.

Less that nobody can control the whole thing, more that you can have full control of your own thing. Basically the same thing you said, but I think it’s important to note that many niche communities thrive on Lemmy.

Lemmy.ml also blocks PJ instance-wide.

Some users use it as an ideological war on instances they don’t like, which is extremely funny.

Lemmy is federated, there isn’t really a way for people of different instances to police what other instances deem appropriate. If you want to avoid PJ, then avoid interacting with Comms they mod, or block them. You can report or make posts on PTB if you feel especially willing to, but if nothing comes of that then your only choice is to ignore or deal with it.

This goes both ways, PJ has no power over instances and communities they don’t mod or participate in.

You cannot re-enable downvotes on Hexbear.net. Other instances can downvote Hexbear posts and comments, but those won’t appear for Hexbear users, and Hexbear users cannot downvote other posts or comments.

Consolidation isn’t always a good thing, communities on different instances will have different styles and trends, and that’s a good thing. The benefit of federated social media is just as much in local instances as it is in federation, unique niches are going to have unique comments even if the post is the exact same.

You could find a peertube instance and upload links to peertube videos.

Yep, the fact that Communists can build their own platform and networks free from any outside censorship on corporatized platforms is itself the strategy for building leftist spaces. The goal isn’t hurt by more non-Communists being on the overall Lemmy platform because these non-Communists can’t actually do much to shut the Communists out.

That’s a good thing, as a Communist I’m happy we have spaces.