Everything on the Internet is public domain.
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Federation is the most natural form of human society. We’ve developed to exist in small communities of a couple dozen people. Some groups talk to each other, some don’t, and every one has its own identity. Sometimes a member leaves and gets assimilated into another group.
Existing in large communities with thousands and millions of members - other species do that, like ants.
Ok weird analogy, but I think that’s the gist of it really.
Uniform places like Facebook, with one queen/master, perfectly organised, never really seeing outside, being just a cog - that’s a life of an ant.
Small, agile communities, sometimes a bit messy and complex, especially when it comes to outside interactions - we can handle that, because of our huge human brains.
It’s time for moving away from being ants back to being humans.
No, the creator might not know of all the communities where the post might be relevant. You’d end up either with everyone bugging the poster to xpost it everywhere; or everyone just copying the post, making things worse.
Seeing an xpost might lead you to finding nee communities you didn’t know, it’s one of the best discovery tools.
People have been asking the admins directly and never got an answer (AFAIK). Maybe on Mastodon it’s been discussed more thoroughly.
But anyway, when you’re federating, you’re only “sharing” what the user wishes to be public anyway.
You’re not federating their personal information (like email address), which is your responsibility when it comes to stuff like data protection and locality. But what your users post online is not your responsibility, as long as you take reasonable precautions against illegal activity etc.
It’s not unlike email and such - if a user sends an email from your service, they can request to delete it from your server, but it’s not up to you to delete it from recipient’s servers.
Considering EU likes to promote interoperability of services, I’d say they are aware of such limitations. Just make sure to make your service compliant, and make users know you have no power over other servers.
I’d like the Reddit style flairs. On communities, mods could set up a bunch of flairs for people to choose from when making a new post. Also be able to assign a user flair.
I think this is useful for distinguishing e.g. questions from debates or memes.
Twitter-style (hash)tags, I understand why they exist but I don’t care for them. Everyone just puts all the tags into every post anyway. Communities on Lemmy serve mostly the same purpose anyway. Like, would technology posts on technology communities have technology tags? Silly.