Does it still seem difficult to understand, use, etc? did you come across anything positive?

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    watching the Fediverse explode while various corporate entities implode is just popcorn entertainment.

    Agree

    To be honest I’m still skeptical of the Fediverse

    The first time I heard about the fediverse I thought it was something different, I thought it was decentralized in the sense that users act as servers in a torrent-like system. This federation thing seemed strange to me at first but I think it’s still better than the usual platform controlled by a few people.

    The only thing I see problematic to integrate into a reddit-like site is the presence of multiple communities with the same name belonging to different instances. Right now this is probably not helping lemmy’s image.

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      Honestly the torrent like idea you propose sounds better to me, but I have heard it’s almost technologically impossible… at least not without train loads of money dumped into solving the problem… hopefully future advances make whatever the hurdles are easier.

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        Some time ago there was Zeronet (abandoned) that worked like this. The problem was that the speed of the site depends on how many users share the data and for heavy things like videos it was a catastrophe. On zeronet there was even a social network similar to facebook/twitter called ZeroMe: https://zeronet.io/docs/it/img/zerome.png

        It was a really cool project, it’s a shame it’s not being developed anymore.

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      The only thing I see problematic to integrate into a reddit-like site is the presence of multiple communities with the same name belonging to different instances.

      That’s what makes it better than reddit. It can’t so easily be controlled by just a few people, because if one community/magazine on one instance gets overrun with toxicity, you can start a mag/comm with the same name on another instance.

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        That’s what makes it better than reddit. It can’t so easily be controlled by just a few people, because if one community/magazine on one instance gets overrun with toxicity, you can start a mag/comm with the same name on another instance.

        absolutely, I am not against this kind of decentralization.

        What I meant is that something could be done to collect the communities posts under one collection to make it easier for the user to join/see the communities content.

        For example, if you subscribe to c/Technology you are subscribed to all the c/Technology communities (optional) in the federation. But this brings with it the problem of duplicates and I don’t think there is an easy way to avoid it, and obviously different communities may have different rules.

        Put simply: being able to subscribe to collections.

        I say this because it seemed to me, at least initially, that for new users this presence of multiple communities with the same name was annoying and confusing.