kbin.social was the first thing on the recommended list.
Divert more power to hull integrity!
I will be thrilled if we end up with some experienced Reddit mods running communities or instances of their own.
It will be an interesting time for sure. I hope it can work out in a way that skilled moderators can be compensated for their efforts. It seems like donation-supported instances for niche communities isn’t too unrealistic right now, though that doesn’t solve the volunteer labor problem. Cleverer things will probably become possible as the technology improves.
The last I want after all this is corporations to come and try to take over or spread ads and marketing everywhere. Sure, it will probably happen anyway, but I‘m gonna go to some instance that defederates from them.
Well it’s certainly a question of scale. I’ve seen some successful indie projects where the hosting costs are met by donations, but that’s usually when the admin/dev(s) are donating their labor. I struggle to imagine a community that could crowdfund enough for a few reasonable salaries on top of hosting costs.
Though my imagination isn’t particularly strong, so I would be delighted if such a thing came to be!
Instance based communities sound really interesting until it comes to the matter of an instance needing to be shut down. I hope the portability factor of Lemmy gets better, because that’s an easy way to lose tons of valuable informarion.
The information won’t necessarily be lost, because most/all? the instances that were previously federated with the shut-down instance should have cached copies of its activity. Not sure on what scale, or how far back, content caching will be, but I imagine admins have (or should have) the ability to configure that sort of thing
Now, from the perspective of a user looking to migrate to a new platform, not being able to “take it with you” is a valid concern. Mastodon seems to have account export nailed down, but lemmy/kbin are still pretty new and might need time to implement something like this
Took them a million years, but finally. Many of them weren’t quite happy with the idea of migrating to platforms where they aren’t the main moderators anymore.
Though (well, I’m biased) I’d say recommending Lemmy over Kbin at the moment would be better, given the number of fully working instances
Lots of people take issue with the political leanings of the Lemmy developers which may be why it’s lower on the list, although I agree that it is more established.
In any case, that’s the beauty of the fediverse. Create an account on both, or choose just one and cross-subscribe to communities you like.
I won’t dive deeper into this issue not because I’m against the debate, but because I made it my personal goal on Lemmy to avoid such topics.
But I’ll say this: people are happily using software from the GNU foundation and they do not keep repeatedly bringing up the political opinions of the founder. So to me, this looks like a very flawed and one sided argument.
Lemmy is got, today, instances that are in direct opposition to every single worldview of it’s founders - and they can’t do anything to control that. Great! That’s how it should be.
To be fair, I tend to agree with you. I don’t think the software itself has anything to do with their political ideologies since it really isn’t a commercial endeavor. I was just identifying it as a common objection that I read.
And you’re absolutely right, people are free to choose an independent instance or start their own if they have any concerns about the owner of an instance or how it is moderated. And after all, isn’t that what this is all about?
I’m in agreement. The nature of the platform allows for people to organize as they see fit and there’s nothing inherently evil in the code. Sure, it is set up sort of like communism, but it’s decentralized in a way where it is more solely about the will of the people instead of one authority.
Woah. Get those lifeboats filled.
Excellent news!