What do you think might be some fun, positive ways for instances to distinguish themselves?
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Instances of any fediverse software, to be clear.
I think clear identity (I like the idea of a mission statement that someone mentioned), and a statement of the governance model of the instance would be really cool to see normalized
Erin Kissane has done a lot of fediverse research and found governance was really vital to people's experiences, good or bad, but it's difficult to asses from the outside until you have a problem and it's either handled well or poorly.
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Consider hiding/disallowing Politics communities
To add on that, lemmy.zip announced in their last update that they hide political communities from the All feed by default
Yeah as much as politics are really important, especially for folks living in the US right now, it's easy for it to become like 75% of all traffic you see and it's a bit suffocating.
Political views and frustration are something lots of lemmites have in common, but it's not healthy to stew in it 24/7 while it drowns out all other more niche communities. There's gotta be some way of finding ballance between being informed and political solidarity, and having healthy social engagements that aren't about how broken the world is
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- Have an actual mission statement beyond just being a general purpose instance (e.g Beehaw, my instance, most of the topic-based ones, etc)
- Replace the default frontend with anything better than Lemmy-UI
- Building on #1, try to curate the experience
- Block the toxic aspects as best you can by default. Don't make new users discover and deal with the toxicity on their own. There's plenty of other general purpose instances that will let people rawdog everything (and everyone) on the Fediverse if that's what someone wants.
- Focus on "quality over quantity" and block all the content repost bots / defed from the instances that do nothing but repost Reddit content
- Consider hiding/disallowing Politics communities and don't allow accounts who post with an obvious agenda.
This is a great list.
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Instances of any fediverse software, to be clear.
I’d like to see organization focused instances. Like a local government that runs an instance and moderates it. NGOs, clubs, sport leagues, etc. could do it.
It might become a nightmare of overlapping content, hierarchies and responsibilities, though.
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I'm a fan of local instances, like at least for a country and language.
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