[vin047]

> This could even help with the decentralization aspect, because ideally the content and accounts would be replicated. So if one instance goes down, its content is still on connected instances, and possibily "ghost accounts" from that instance which let users there continue to post

So Usenet?

[gremlinsinc]

Or, IRC. For all the major support systems (most I think now have moved to discord), they all had a freenode channel, but what if they'd all chosen different networks, so you'd need to connect to maybe a different network for mysql, another for postgres, another for php, another for rust, etc...

To make it more confusing though, all of those networks EACH have their own smaller channel for those technologies, just the official one is on x server.

Reddit is awesome because it's one place to get ALL content related to a niche under one umbrella, and because you can use awesome 3rd party apps -- the next reddit replacement doesn't need to be federated, but it could be community-ran as a sort of DAO, where users can vote on features/etc...