Pixelfed (fediverse Instagram)
Pick any popular platform. Thereโs an OSS version of it. Increasigly, one of those OSS versions supports the ActivityPub spec and, therefore, participate in the fediverse.
Thereโs โcan,โ and the thereโs โpopularly do.โ This comic sadly - and rather ignorantly - only addresses the latter.
Thereโs an AP federated version of Twitter; of Instagram; of Goodreads; of Blogger - there are bunches of them.
I donโt even know what the point of having a decentralized platform is if everyone defederates from each other and congregates in a few instances anyway.
Like you stick Timmy the MAGA nut and Bobby the tankie in the same community and somehow theyโll all just get along because itโs not Reddit.
I think the only upside is you donโt need to create as many accounts to engage with multiple communities across the verse, atleast until heavy moderation kicks in preventing this in the future.
For the exact reason so many of us had come here with recent rules changes that reddit have adopted.
Here on lemmy it would be relatively painless to move to a new instance if lemmy.world suddenly decided to ban the capital letter B. But if Spez thought it might increase his IPO, there wouldnโt be much you can do about it.
Yeah but whats the difference between switching instances when the admins get totalitarian vs switching forums. I donโt really understand the benefit of Lemmy because it still encourages the same behavior as Reddit. Yeah you can move to another instance but thatโs exactly like switching forums on the old web.
I believe what will eventually happen is all the biggest instances will have a small number of whitelisted instances that can be interacted with and thatโs it. Everything will be tightly controlled among the larger instances.
IMO it makes sense to federate with similar platforms. Mastodon and Firefish, for example. Or Lemmy and Kbin. But there is no point in federating mastodon with Lemmy. The format is so different anyway.
The Fediverse is not one single platform and IMO that is fine.
Federating with news sites is a direction to consider. Think about โcommentsโ from the page being the mirror of a lemmy post.
