• 0 Posts
  • 17 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: June 13th, 2023

help-circle


  • Expecting every different platform to all move in lockstep is not feasible so a situation where some support downvotes but some do not is going to have to be part of the process. Even if it was just kbin to kbin initially, that’d still be an improvement.

    Yea, that is what i was thinking. I myself am working on some ActivityPub stuff and while compat is important to me, i also plan on potentially exposing new features in this manner. If other software wants to federate with it, cool, if not, whatevs. It’s data propagation, as with everything in ActivityPub it’s optional that consumers use it as desired.










  • I agree… BUT, i think it’s important to also remember that for-profit like Reddit will have incentives to drive engagement patterns which can sometimes (i’m being generous heh) be toxic to the social atmosphere.

    Opensource implementations have a chance to change interaction that is more favorable to the user, to the community, etc. I don’t believe Lemmy or Kbin offer much here, yet, but Tildes.net talks about this and makes an effort there.

    I’d like to see a federated instance that puts more effort in this space. It won’t be what Redditors want… because, well, Reddit built addictive patterns and this is the opposite of that. But nonetheless i think we can make progress on Reddit-likes when we carefully analyze what ramifications Reddit features have.