Decentralized vs. Federated https://lemmy.ml/post/2416512
Yeah, I always wished that Lemmy communities could be decentralized. Moderation, etc. still would work as before, the creator of the community would just give moderator rights to other people, etc.
Yea, increasingly it seems ActivityPub and this fediverse is just a prototype. It’s quite realistic that in 10 years we won’t be looking back on it with huge amounts of praise, apart from proving that this general model can work, which is huge.
I do wonder though, how would moderation work in true decentralisation. Who owns the community should the instance of its creator goes down? I guess user accounts would also be decentralised.
Well such ownership tends to be based on communal recognition anyway. The community sort of chooses its own owner through members of the community agreeing that so and so is the owner.
If the creator or current owner disappears, it would be up to the community to first recognize that and secondly react to it, probably by coming to a general agreement that someone or someones else will be the new owner.
