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I never said it should not be done, I just said the approach is likely not successful. I would be careful with the "centralist mindset". Centralization towards instances or towards communities are very much different things.
I don't really understand what you mean here, could you elaborate?
I mean that the .org ending makes it look like something international. If I'm not mistaken .org stands for organisation. So it's like visiting "The Feddit Organisation", but the instance is primary German. The sidebar of the instance is German first, English second. It's just confusing and IMO also misleading. They could've picked "lemmy.de" or "feddit.au" or something similar.
Is disagree. It means to me that there is still a preference for centralisation in the mind, which is limiting. Thinking the same will lead to the same outcome. Just like the people who left twitter, went to mastodon, immediately went "but this isn't twitter, why isn't this twitter?" and started demanding all the twitter features that made twitter toxic in the first place.
If you think centralist in a federation, you will always feel uncomfortable and push for centralist ideas, ideals, and goals.
There is nothing "international" about an organisation. Almost every county has them.
You still need a minimum number of active contributors to keep the communities active. If everyone wants to post to their own community, they should switch to a microblog format, there everyone has their own feed.
Communities consolidation happens all the time (see [email protected] ), because people get tired of "shouting into the void" on their community alone, and join forces with other people on a shared community.
I read "new" a lot and on some profiles, it it is my default. I don't "suffer" from choosing where to post, because I don't really care that much about upvotes. Most things are a one off share and that's it - except for questions, then I try to pick the biggest community. There are people to solve their conundrum by just cross-posting to all relevant communities, which is also fine by me.
Personally, I'd rather have multiple small and active communities than centralised, large communities with many small and dead communities.
As you see, I'm quite against centralisation and merging, and what-not. It's probably a thing we disagree on.
If it's a one off share thing it's probably fine the way you do it.
I guess our perspectives are different because I'm more active on communities that are active "in the long run", such as [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
Also, most of the value of Reddit and Lemmy comes from the comments. Having splintered discussions in several similar communities prevents interesting conversations from happening.
feddit.au would not make sense, last time I checked Australia is not a german speaking countr. lemmy.de was one of the proposed new domains, iirc, but the users eventually chose feddit.org specifically because we did want to make it a clear successor to feddit.de, but we didn't want to tie it to a country specific tld like .de, .at, or ch to indicate that none of the german speaking countries is "more important" or "prioritized" over the other.
Austria. Dunno what their domain is.