This question is not restricted to online communities like lemmy, the scope also encompasses communities like small villages, interest groups (i.e. for hobbies) and political parties.
This question is not restricted to online communities like lemmy, the scope also encompasses communities like small villages, interest groups (i.e. for hobbies) and political parties.
Above everything else, the protocols should be compatible with one another.
Long ago, in the US, there used to be a law that said that, if you commit a crime in one US state and then travel to another state, the police in the first state can no longer pursue you and it becomes a problem for the next state to handle. This was one unsung part of why Wild West style bounties were a common thing in the past even on the East Coast.
Now if the protocol in each entity is so aloof from one another that borders become the strength of a saboteur, doesn’t that ruin the biggest perk of calling yourself the “united [insert thing here]”? It’s also worth bringing up when someone treats the US as one single entity, like when they say “those darn Americans and their guns” and “those Americans are so fat” like one state can enforce a stereotype for the other 49 (something nobody says about, say, Europe).