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  • federal reverse@feddit.orgMEnglish
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    7 days ago

    Also, I don’t understand the feddit-org thing. Why is a German instance “feddit-org” as if it’s the main feddit instance?

    Specifically to accommodate hosting communities like !europe actually. feddit-org is explicitly meant as a de+en (language, not country) instance, adhering to DE/AT/CH law, and hosted in AT.

    We had a vote on that topic at some point about that on feddit-de where feddit-org won out against e.g. lemminge-de.

    It seems to me like the centralist mindset is still very ingrained in people despite being in a different place.

    Centralized services are simply easier to understand. And comments are a major issue: !europe here has vastly more comments than the community of the same name on europe-pub. If both become popular, commenters will split up between the two instances, making both communities seem emptier and more disjoint.

    In any case, while I am not super happy about the approach that europe-pub takes, I am happy it exists and provides another option, should things fail in another part of the fediverse.

    That said, the Fediverse Foundation, i.e. the Austrian non-profit running this instance feels like a very good home for the moment.