I wasn’t sure whether to post this or ask an admin directly, but I then thought it might be worth asking this openly and seeing what other people think, or if other people can fill in gaps in my knowledge.

I’ve been seeing an increase of communities that are local to this instance but don’t have anything to do with the UK directly. The latest one I’ve seen is a community for posts relating to the US Green Party.

I’ve still not got my head around this federation malarkey, but I’d assumed local communities should somehow relate to the instance? Or does it not matter in the slightest? Is there a potential financial penalty due to the increased traffic?

  • rah@feddit.ukEnglish
    6·
    17 days ago

    I’d assumed local communities should somehow relate to the instance?

    That makes sense but I don’t think there are any rules to that effect on feddit.uk.

    The latest one I’ve seen is a community for posts relating to the US Green Party.

    Yeah that’s a bit weird. I’d guess it’s probably someone who either doesn’t understand what they’re doing and just signed up on a “big” instance, or they’re some kind of anglophile.

    • Chris@feddit.ukEnglish
      4·
      16 days ago

      There probably should be a rule that communities relate to the UK in some way. Either;

      • UK specific
      • UK including wider area (eg. European community)
      • Generic global/non-regional

      Creating a US community here is weird.