The Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves: Cohost and the Fate of Centralized Platforms - eviltoast
  • SorteKanin@feddit.dk
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    2 months ago

    You realize the way things work currently doesn’t prevent that, right?

    It totally does prevent it because every community has a unique name, when you include the instance domain. Which is the whole point. The instance is where the community lives.

    • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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      2 months ago

      Ok, but you can still go ahead and create the same community on every instance so you control all the communities with that name.

      • SorteKanin@feddit.dk
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        2 months ago

        No! That’s exactly what you can’t do, because if you tried you’d get banned by the admin! In your scenario, there are no admins to stop such a bad actor. But ultimately admins control what communities are on their instance, so you can’t just hijack all communities like that.