cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/539688

From the article: Moving to the Fediverse This tension between these communities and their host have, again, fueled more interest in the Fediverse as a decentralized refuge. A social network built on an open protocol can afford some host-agnosticism, and allow communities to persist even if individual hosts fail or start to abuse their power. Unfortunately, discussions of Reddit-like fediverse services Lemmy and Kbin on Reddit were colored by paranoia after the company banned users and subreddits related to these projects (reportedly due to “spam”). While these accounts and subreddits have been reinstated, the potential for censorship around such projects has made a Reddit exodus feel more urgently necessary, as we saw last fall when Twitter cracked down on discussions of its Fediverse-alternative, Mastodon.

  • Kaizen@lemmy.fmhy.mlOPM
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    1 year ago

    I don’t think they were “suppressing” lemmy purposely, it’s just that the whole fediverse mainly consists of “tech savvy” or geeky people and can be a bit much to wrap ones mind around at first as a non-tech person.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah we should make an infographic and lobby congress to include fediverse knowledge in computer classes

      • Kaizen@lemmy.fmhy.mlOPM
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        1 year ago

        An infographic would actually be nice, getting younger people on it is especially a way to make something more popular, all the fediverse is missing is a stupid decentralized tiktok (i hope it never happens) and for tiktok to make stupid changes like twitter & reddit.

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          1 year ago

          Decentralised social media for videos would be much harder because of the storage considerations.

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            1 year ago

            ^^ This (although storage is not the only issue.) If you ever used PeerTube you can tell that it’s not a very good experience.

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            1 year ago

            streaming torrents is a thing as far as i know, so that may be an option (although rarely viewed videos would vanish if no one is dedicated to seed them).