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I think federation wars will cause that end point. If I wanted to start a community- or group of communities- I’d put them on their own instance and not have user signups. That minimizes exposure to conflict - either you like sports communities / Pathfinder communities / whatever or you don’t. If beehaw wants to lock themselves down it doesn’t affect my community. If Lemmy.world gets blocked by a bunch of instances it doesn’t affect my community. I don’t have to deal with the consequences on other instances of users coming from my instance.
I’d go a step further and say that identity management should exist separately from content, but that would probably break brains already struggling with the concept of federation.
100% this, it’s kind of weird that it’s not.
Just like you thought of having your own instance for a custom set of content with independence, I made my own instance for pretty much an identity base I can maybe control well.
We’ll try to make a good community or two, but I don’t know if I’m good enough or have enough time to grow and moderate one well.
unless you depend on a third party, this is a nontrivial problem.