I run a few groups, like @fediversenews@venera.social, 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.

  • yopla@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    It’s interesting but I still think the federated universe still has too many quirks to be understandable by most people. To be honest, I haven’t bothered documenting myself so I might say stupid things but I can’t understand why identity is tied to a server, it seems like a terrible design mistake when it’s obviously the first thing i’d want to decentralise. In short, I’m me, it shouldn’t matter that I’m on beehaw, lemmy or some random mastodon or kbin server. Huge mistake imho.

    Then the content obviously needs a lot more contributors but many of the good reddit contributors where also mostly tech illiterate and I’m still worried that the high complexity to enter the fediverse will put off many people and keep it a fun, but somewhat boring, little niche.

    • wiredfire@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      Your ID doesn’t need to be tied to any given server. You can move around and change your “home” server at will. Or if preferred you could stand up your own server for your usage, hold your identify on there, and still engage with the rest of Lemmy / fediverse.

      It’s less a design mistake and more a technical constraint. A users identify exists as, at a minimum, a database entry. That database needs to live somewhere that the various fediverse servers can talk to. But you have complete freedom in where that database entry is, and can change your mind later.

      So it already doesn’t matter if you’re on beehaw, lemmy or some random mastodon or kbin server - they all federate with each other (to varying degrees but that’s a slightly different conversation)