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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • Fragmentation is, in my opinion, kind of the point.

    I think we lose sight of the fact that the Fediverse is new, and conveniences and comforts get added by developers after users have a go at it.

    Lemmy is very usable right now in its current form, even if fragmentation makes it a little inconvenient here and there. The fact is, for popular communities, there will likely be one big community with kind of satellite communities that are run slightly different or allow more memes, etc.

    Once developers find ways to improve cross-posting and multi-instance feed integration, I think fragmentation will mostly be a background, unnoticed, thing.

    I think it keeps mods more honest, because they know anyone can jump ship much easier to another established community - even if it’s smaller.

    I’m not saying there aren’t downsides, but I do believe the upsides outweigh it, and it will only get better over time.