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Redditors, how do you like Lemmy? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I run a few groups, like @[email protected], mostly on Friendica. It's okay, but Friendica resembles Facebook Groups more than Reddit. I also like the moderation options that Lemmy has.

Currently, I'm testing jerboa, which is an Android client for Lemmy. It's in alpha, has a few hiccups, but it's coming along nicely.

Personally, I hope the #RedditMigration spurs adoption of more Fediverse server software. And I hope Mastodon users continue to interact with Lemmy and Kbin.

All that said, as a mod of a Reddit community (r/Sizz) I somewhat regret giving Reddit all that content. They have nerve charging so much for API access!

Hopefully, we can build a better version of social media that focuses on protocols, not platforms.

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[–] agreenbhm 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yes, that probably right. But it also goes against one of the supposed benefits of the Fediverse. Which makes the whole distributed system thing a bit pointless.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Eh, Mastodon is currently 80% of the Fediverse. Lemmy today just moved above 100,000 users -- which is a big deal, but it's no Mastodon. Even if everyone on Lemmy congregates to one server, that's more diversity for the Fediverse.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It does not go against the benefits at all.

The fact that a user from any instance can join a community on any other instance is exactly what federation is all about!

[–] agreenbhm 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I just don't see how this actually benefits the average user compared to a centralized system. To me it's a bit like trying to apply Blockchain technology to everything regardless of how appropriate it may be. I'm sure plenty here disagree with me and that's fine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Most centralized systems have a ton of redundancy built in as well. Huge web platforms especially have massive amounts of redundancy - some content is replicated hundreds of times and spread around the globe to ensure that users everywhere will have fast response times.

So in fact, the real difference between a centralized platform and something like Lemmy comes down to whether or not here is a single corporate entity who has full contol over the course of the platform or not.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Centralized systems tend to be brittle and authoritarian.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

No, it isn't, because of resilience. reddit as a gigantic instance would take out a lot, but the whole ecosystem of UI, clients etc. would have stayed identical. It would be a much softer switch. Shutdowns of large instances are an issue and lemmy's user history is not portable (hopefully it will be). This has better future prospects.