Awesome.
Awesome.
There is finally a decent alternative to reddit, after one has been needed for years? And it's open source federated software?? AND I can sign up on an instance that supports free sharing of media?!
I have been waiting a long time for reddit to fuck up badly enough that something else could fill the vacuum they created and do it right. Awesome.
Yeah, this thing is pretty sweet when you get the hang, super diverse and It seems like its picking up speed, things look a lot more lively this week a lot of new communities and posts. Will be exciting to get to see its shittification since the beginning. Hopefully we avoid that fate and fend off the meta incursion and the defederation drama, happy to be here for sure.
I was using Reddit the last few years only because I didn't find anything better. There was a lot not to like about Reddit from the start for me. After the recent Reddit debacle I was motivated to find an alternative. Since this community and another favorite migrated over here, I figured it was time to move with them.
The Fediverse is pretty amazing, you have a range of platforms, Lemmy, Kbin, Mastadon, etc. to access all of the Fediverse content. I like Lemmy a lot, but Kbin would also be a good platform for me. Then you have a pretty big number of instances to chose from. I actually have three that I like, but mainly use the one I'm on now. It's all about options and the Fediverse has them in spades.
The Fediverse has been around a while, but it's really starting to gain traction. Initially it was Mastadon that drew off a lot of Twitter users after the Musk fiasco. Now it's Lemmy and Kbin drawing off users after the Reddit API fiasco.
There is definitely a looming threat of exploitation as the Fediverse community gets more popular. I think the admins and platform developers will be able to keep a lid on it. They pretty much have to for survival. There's other threats too, like corporate influence. The community will have to be vigilant in the fight to protect itself.
Its probably not going to last forever. Eventually they trollers will catch up and might want to take it down. And since its federated its just a few people runninga a server it will be much easier to take down. Not like reddit which is a big company have the resources and money .
It's what I dislike the most about the fediverse concept. It's nice in principle, but it's all far too fragmented, which not only makes it a lot easier to target specific servers, it also introduces the concern that is defederation.
The open source part is great, but the federation part will take a long time yet to convince me, if it ever does.
Targeting specific servers sounds like a problem of centralization, not fragmentation. If hosts can just easily move to new proxy servers, and users can easily create new accounts on any random server, then I don't think the Fediverse would be easy to target. The direction that a lot servers are going, with having to type a paragraph to join, seems like the opposite direction to me, and it makes me appreciate this server more.
Personally I like those "local" smaller communities. It's like living in smaller cities, everyone knows each other, amount of posts and comments is not overwhelming so you can interact with people and be heard. And if you need some very active subs for news and such then there are popular "main" sublemmies for mainstream topics on lemmyverse.net.
I think it makes the system more robust. And it significantly lowers the financial burden for someone to host an instance.
welcome 🤗