Any chance of revisiting the decision to ban community creation?
Trying to force everyone to use the same "technology" community is a hangover of centralised social media. There should be multiple communities around the world for the same topic. People should join the one they feel most welcome and at home at, and long term people will naturally gravitate to the communities on the servers that are active and have good moderation (or at least, moderation rules that they agree with). Forcing everyone to overload e.g. lemmy.ml communities just makes the fediverse less resilient.
Having said that, I respect that this is the decision of those putting the effort in to host an Aotearoa instance.
Any chance of revisiting the decision to ban community creation?
Trying to force everyone to use the same "technology" community is a hangover of centralised social media. There should be multiple communities around the world for the same topic. People should join the one they feel most welcome and at home at, and long term people will naturally gravitate to the communities on the servers that are active and have good moderation (or at least, moderation rules that they agree with). Forcing everyone to overload e.g. lemmy.ml communities just makes the fediverse less resilient.
Having said that, I respect that this is the decision of those putting the effort in to host an Aotearoa instance.