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@lemmy.cahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Fpa6c6XsX4
Giuliano Cameroni and Shawn Raboutou bouldering in Ticino, SwitzerlandGeyser Sound 8B (FA & 2nd)Younity 8A+ (FA) Tomba 8B+Albatros 8B (2nd)La Rustica 8CMy...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Fpa6c6XsX4
Giuliano Cameroni and Shawn Raboutou bouldering in Ticino, SwitzerlandGeyser Sound 8B (FA & 2nd)Younity 8A+ (FA) Tomba 8B+Albatros 8B (2nd)La Rustica 8CMy...
As far as I know, one of the headline features of microblogging networks is searching and following hashtags. On top of that, Mastodon (like Lemmy) tells users that it's not important what server/instance you join, because of federation.
With Lemmy, I find it easy to search and interact with communities across all the federated instances. Chances are, people on my local instance (even if it's relatively small) will have already interacted with popular communities for a given topic, so they will be easy to discover. However with Mastodon this concept seems totally broken -- when I search a hashtag I want to see everything, and related posts might be spread out over hundreds of small servers for which, apparently, my small server has no content populated. With Lemmy, I understand that content gets populated on my local instance when somebody else on my instance has interacted with it before. I just don't understand how this approach is feasible with for a system like Mastodon. Maybe I'm misunderstanding something, but it seems like the only way to have a reasonable chance of getting decent results for hashtag searches is to be on the biggest server?
If my home instance is lemmy.ca, and I want to create and moderate a community about, say, Japanese woodworking (random example of a subreddit I follow), isn't it a bit odd for that community to be hosted by lemmy.ca? If somebody else later created a community of the same name on lemmy.ml or lemmy.jp, would people be more likely to join those communities as they seem more "official"?
On one hand, joining multiple instances just for "better" vanity URLs for new communities seems wrong (and annoying to manage), on the other hand it's odd that I'd arbitrarily impose the traffic associated with a community completely unrelated to Canada onto lemmy.ca. How is this supposed to work?