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  • easydnesto@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    For me the fragmentation of the communities cause me pain so I would love to see less fragmentation.

    Just do a search for any topic and there are at least a handful of communities all with varying member counts and no idea which one is active.

    I’m a programmer so I like to keep up on some different languages.

    Java has the few communities but still more than two Rust has at least 10 different communities And the list goes on.

    I kind of wish there was some sort of centralization and that communities would either merge or disband but I only see this getting worse.

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      1 year ago

      Ooh, having the ability for a community to set (and unset) itself to direct to another community of their choice would be cool in a baranganic democracy way

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        1 year ago

        I googled around a little bit but didn’t quite understand. What’s a barangay/baranganic

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          a barangay is a precolonial / indigenous political unit in SE Asia that literally means “boat”; the ancient political structure was that a barangay (a group of people larger than a family but smaller than a tribe) would federate under a “fleet commander” and sail under their command (e.g. in times of war or raids). the barangay could withdraw their support at a low cost by literally sailing away and/or federating with a different chieftain.

          a baranganic democracy is structured such that a group of people can stay together in their chosen community, but that community can pledge itself to a single decision-maker, with the ability to withdraw support at low cost. it’s a representative democracy, but the legitimacy and power of the representative is essentially proven by the consent and backing of the governed.

          in a fediverse way, this could be like having a Lemmy instance pawn.social that federates with lemmy.ca and lemmy.nl, but with all three in mutual agreement that lemmy.ca is in charge of reduplication communities; lemmy.ca’s mod team then decides that in this cluster !memes goes to memes@lemmy.ca, !furry always goes to furry@pawb.social, !woodworking is wood@lemmy.nl and so on. that would allow both for server balancing and federation/defederation but reduce duplicates