Lawyers, platform moderation, and SEO have wiped it out. What’s left is boring drivel whose only purpose is to sell you a product or a course or avoid a lawsuit. I realize some have moved to private groups and there are still sites if you look hard enough. But is that enough?
Federation feels like the right place to bring that culture back rather than let it die or has that ship sailed?
I think this would be tough to implement on lemmy because there’s no easy way (at least not that i know of) to search Lemmy as a whole. Results don’t show up in a google search and even if they did, you can’t just attach “lemmy.com” to your query since there are so many independent instances that could be hosting this content.
I was just thinking of communities that could act as discussions or KB posts.
I understand that some sites don’t want meta lawyers coming at them. They’re monolithic and have other infrastructure concerns that can be targeted. But lemmy solves some of those issues. Federation seems like it can revive some things that corporate owned internet has been trying to wipe clean.
Maybe the end goal of lemmy is to end up like reddit. A place to advertise and hawk products and entertainment. I really don’t know enough about it. But from what I see, I’m just wondering if it’s worth discussing.