I don’t think its naiv. I think its more realistic. I like most about the article that it puts the activitypub-protocol front and center. This is mainly what made me view the fediverse differently. And that therefore power dynamics will probably shift in the next years away from Mastodon.

Actually, there is something like this called Fedivision :D

Totally agree. It would be cool to have some variant of our own that we can share with the world.

Doesn’t matter which (but preferably the latter). Its more of a thought-experiment …

Default-Local-Feed was also noted as bad user-experience in this article: https://www.androidauthority.com/reddit-alternatives-lemmy-3335429/

Sure, there are categorization tools like Lemmy map that let you look up instances, but the Matrix-like grid will certainly not make things any easier for the average user. Even after logging into Lemmyworld, it took me a while to figure out that the local tab restricts all conversations to discussions on the Lemmyworld server. Switching the tab to all and catching up on discussions happening in the broader multiverse of Reddit alternatives is also possible. Still, there’s no visual identifier that guides you toward it.

Ok, I take that.

So the thing is: I don’t want to push users towards the Local-feed. That’s just what currently happening if you go to the front page. Local is selected as default. You can switch to All but often enough, I at least don’t do it.

Why is that? Because instances have less control of the All-feed, its often enough full of crap and the post of small instances will almost never appear in the All-feed. So they select Local as default and I, as a user, have to always switch between Local and All, which is annoying. I want to see whats going on on my instance but I also want to discover stuff from all over the threadiverse.

My solution is to combine the two into one feed, which simply picks posts from the respective feeds based on probabilities.

Why?

Well its not proven or anything that’s true. But until now no one convinced me otherwise.

Because of this: https://lemmy.world/post/5110170

Thanks to @Spzi@lemm.ee for half of the idea

I like that idea

Interesting, I hadn’t thought about the ethical and data protection issues for this problem before.

Could linking of communities solve it? You close a community, open it on another instance and link the two?

That’s true. I’m not sure it would be a good feature, because you would inevitable only see a certain view of the instance. For example your instances blocks certain communities of that instance (don’t know if thats possible but lets assume it is), then you wouldn’t see these communities.

I’m fine with the way it is. Also you can post to that topic, you just need to search for it in your instances UI.

The ”global town-square”

I don’t want that. I stand with the idea of federation. You would have that with one big instance on which everything happens but I’m not for that.

But if instances only push their users toward their own content, user engagment will center around instances. There are many problems to that, which negatively impact discussion quality: small instances don’t work because no one sees their stuff, therefore they eventually shut down. Also, filter bubbles develop, users don’t see content from other instances, which they might be interested in and comment on. So yes, I think a better distribution over the federated instances of an instance is healthy for the threadiverse.

Highly disagree, if an instance is controlling the experience of a user, then that’s a problem.

But that’s so in any case. I’m speaking about which feed the user is pushed towards, which is currently the local feed.

But is that technically possible? I imagine it would be pretty tough migrating all that data …

But that’s possible, simply go to the instances website

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That’s fine. I also think it works okay at the moment, but I’m a critical person and I think this could become a problem in the future, so I think about how it could be solved.

If I want to browse content from another small instance, I just subscribe to their communities.

I’m just not sure the average user does that. Especially casual ones.

Also I think the average user doesn’t want to use third-party websites to discover new content, especially on the phone. These services just appear to me to be workarounds.

Manipulation is a strong point, however, I think if you have the choice between several algorithms, manipulation should be pretty hard.