While i appreciate the work put towards a healthier Lemmy experience for everyone, I’m also concerned about the consolidation efforts happening lately.

I agree with streetfestival that it comes off as pushing towards centralisation of communities within instances that are considered “acceptable” (by whom, for whom, what criteria?), which to me goes directly against the idea of federation.

!privacy@lemmy.ca is perfectly fine and was actually the community people recommended when .ml was considered not reliable anymore. Why make people move again?

The goal is to have users have a choice, not force people to use four to five “main” instances and go back to a Reddit style of ownership when it comes to communities. Until we have an option to federate and share comments between communities, I’d rather “live and let live” than force a specific usage of Lemmy upon users.

I don’t find that argument convincing.

• lemmy.world has too much influence in the lemmyverse already, IMHO.
• If the privacyguides mods on lemmy are the same as those on reddit roughly a year ago, I wouldn’t recommend their forum. The quality of their guidance was hit & miss, and more than zero of those mods had a habit of using their position to control discourse and push notions that run against individuals’ privacy and safety. Once their subreddit was created, they seemed to gradually become more self-serving.
• lemmy.ml is already the dominant privacy community on lemmy, as you noted. Its existence doesn’t provide choice.