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If Lemmy and Mastodon continues to get popular, we will eventually get Instance wars. (lemmy.fmhy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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If the descentralization of social networks continue, we will have to prepare for the eventual rise of the instances wars, where people will start to fight about which instance is better and which one is weird to be in and so on, but that's for the future of us all.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (4 children)

What if there was an app that let you log in to multiple lemmy accounts at once, aggregated the lot into one seamless feed, and used the relevant account for each interaction? Maybe even going as far as to automatically cross-post any submission to duplicate communities and aggregate that too.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I'm actually working on this haha.

It's definitely a v2 feature, but it's in the works

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Use wefwef.app

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

@doopen @macisr I’m not sure why you would need multiple accounts actually. (Posted from mastodon).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Would an app that pulls directly from each server (anonymously) or an app that pulls from dedicated servers (while logged in/subbed) be better? The first is more efficient but the instance owners likely won’t be [financially] supported, while the latter requires duplication and is prone to defederation issues. In the end I suspect overcoming defederation will be a significant design goal of third party apps.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I've got multiple accounts because I have my main (this one) and an account on feddit.uk. The account on feddit.uk exists because I wanted to make a very UK-niche community on there, and I believe you need an account on an instance to make a community on that instance. I could give up my feddit.uk account now, but it's nice to keep around in case my main instance goes down for maintenance or some such.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

This would be the best of all worlds. Instances get to choose who to federate with, users get to choose want instances to use.

Sign me up.