• orcrist@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    The ideas leading to Lemmy go back at least a decade, that I can remember. There are many little things that people figured out when developing distributed federated social media networks of this type. It’s a success story of collaboration over a long time with a shared goal of making Reddit and Twitter easy to replace with a superior product.

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      3 months ago

      I’m surprised that nobody has tried to turn Facebook into a distributed service or perhaps they have and I just haven’t noticed.

      I’m not really interested in a Twitter alternative as I never really used the original. But I would like a less shitty Facebook.

      If somebody could basically just make Google plus again, but then actually let people use it, that would be great.