Please do instance wars also on PeerTube, it's noone land right now.

Lemmy.world or bust

I truly hope this type of hierarchical thinking can stay fun and not create the kind of grating pomposity that pervades every bloody animalistic thing. I want us to grow beyond childish competitiveness.

Only if the instance wars are described with a star wars screen crawl

I would prefer people to be spread across different forums and form their own identity

SA vs Fark vs Ebaums all over again. Can't wait.

so the owners and mods of instances will have to compete to provide a good experience. I don’t see a problem with this

As long as there are individuals, groups will be sought after and created based on the need of belonging and the need to different from another group

Were there mailserver wars?

Does it really matter? So long as they remain federalized you can still access and interact with those instances.

I just hope that most people will be open-minded and that most instances will federate. But that's probably being optimistic.

A lot of comments are assuming a negative outcome but there could be some fun and positive 'wars'. Best Instance Photoshop Battle anyone?

Absolutely. I don't think that's a bad thing.

What I do worry about somewhat is multiple forks of the codebase that differ so much as to cause bugs when instances try to interoperate.

Or, just make it fun friendly competition and start a quiz show like tournament of teams from each instance, no need for war.

Tbh I’m still confused on the differences and have literally zero attachment to the one I chose

Can we just go back to BBS where you have dial in with your land line to post on a board? The difficulty of use acted like an awesome protection from any community growing too large too fast and was super easy to moderate. I just want to pull my socks up to my knees, yell at the clouds, and dial in to the NG BBS...

I mean there were subreddit wars so i think it is bound to happen.