I would prefer people to be spread across different forums and form their own identity
this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2023
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SA vs Fark vs Ebaums all over again. Can't wait.
so the owners and mods of instances will have to compete to provide a good experience. I don’t see a problem with this
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Only if the instance wars are described with a star wars screen crawl
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Does it really matter? So long as they remain federalized you can still access and interact with those instances.
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As long as there are individuals, groups will be sought after and created based on the need of belonging and the need to different from another group
I remember the war between /r/me_irl and /r/meirl back in the day on Reddit
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Were there mailserver wars?
Yes. In the mid 90's, anyone with an AOL or Juno email address was a noob. Many people on the internet had .edu email addresses, because it was pretty hard to get internet access unless you were affiliated with a university. The rise of Hotmail and Yahoo mail ended up removing the association between email address and internet service provider, to the point where people who were using ISP-provided email addresses by the early 2000's were seen as unsophisticated and usually older.
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A lot of comments are assuming a negative outcome but there could be some fun and positive 'wars'. Best Instance Photoshop Battle anyone?
Absolutely. I don't think that's a bad thing.
What I do worry about somewhat is multiple forks of the codebase that differ so much as to cause bugs when instances try to interoperate.
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Or, just make it fun friendly competition and start a quiz show like tournament of teams from each instance, no need for war.
Can we just go back to BBS where you have dial in with your land line to post on a board? The difficulty of use acted like an awesome protection from any community growing too large too fast and was super easy to moderate. I just want to pull my socks up to my knees, yell at the clouds, and dial in to the NG BBS...
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I just hope that most people will be open-minded and that most instances will federate. But that's probably being optimistic.
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