Last Week in the Fediverse – episode 32
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Search is actually happening in Mastodon. More conversations around Lemmy and defederation. Gitlab plans to join the fediverse.

In another conversation about the server literature.cafe potentially defederating from the Hexbear server, I found this comment chain by @Janvier to be a worthwhile read. He makes the case for smaller servers to defederate from many large servers, and not only Hexbear, as a way for smaller communities to grow organically. It is an interesting and different vision of Lemmy; many smaller ‘islands’ that are only marginally connected, instead of one big platform that is tightly connected between the different servers.

      • JanvierEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Thanks for the pings and support, both of you.

        I wrote the thread in a mature post that was already several days old, primarily as an exercise in organizing my thoughts. I didn’t think anyone besides @gabe would see it, so I’m really pleased it has reached a larger audience and brought more attention to the instance.