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Nov 16
@erincandescent @trwnh @mralanorth @shengokai ☝️☝️☝️
The model where everyone gets a new identity for every community they join (1) largely defeats the purpose of federation (2) does not scale as people have *many* communities of interest and (3) doesn't map to our natural conception of identity.
I *hope* it's fixable. May take some convincing of Eugen, which seems hard from this vantage point.
@aaronpk 💯
I totally think "local instances" have a place, where there's strong overlap between your contextual identity and your instance - e.g., work or other closed community-based instances like @darius's friend camp, where federation is a little external communication you can have as a treat, not the primary mode.
I wonder if @Gargron's opposition to the private community TL, which was originally grounded in a fear of losing network effects, may have waned now that the network is booming?