My ranking attempt

“3: Only allow topics that arent limited to one language, library, etc. (general topic community)” “5: Only allow crossposts into the community with things like news being posted in the specific community first (crosspost community)” “4: Dont allow questions of how to do X in X language but allow actual discussions or news about the language in addition to general topics (general & discussion community)” “2: Allow any posts and direct people in the comments to more specific communities for their future posts (people catching community)” “1: Allow all posts relevant to the instance (main community)”

Basically desiring that posts be in their respective communities with the main community acting as a catch-all for posts that don’t fit into any existing community or announcements like community launches.

I know ranked voting is a good system, but the options are a bit confusing to me as they don’t seem mutually exclusive. Perhaps it is correct, but I have never seen a ranked vote like this. For example, I believe you could allow cross posting in addition to allowing topics that are not limited to one language.

Currently the benefit is not sending your credentials and other requests through wefwef.app and avoiding throttling. If you value privacy self hosting is a good idea. If you trust wefwef, then the only other reason is to customize/develop wefwef.

After CORS fix in Lemmy is done and wefwef updates your requests should go directly to Lemmy servers so privacy concerns are mitigated.