this is such a great app, thank you for forking it! I’ve had a flawless experience so far (except the other comment loading issue, but pretty sure thats a 0.18.4 issue not infinity)

imagine being able to talk about how Reddit is down on reddit, the fediverse is literally black magic

I usually just link to sh.itjust.works because I like the admin there and think he’s cool

also it’s not too big like lemmy world

Also I think it’s better to subtly convert redditors to lemmies by posting content from lemmy, that way they’ll discover it themselves

you should selfhost lemmy

is federation working at all?

That’s basing off the idea that Lemmy users are all tech nerds though. I know there’s a lot of us on the platform, but I also know that we have non tech savvy people on here, and frankly we need them for the content they can provide. We need diversity in ideas, knowledge, and skill to be a successful platform.

you are one in my mind :)

Woah, are you Kavin from kavin.rocks??

I agree with your stance on Fuckerburg’s shitstain of a platform, but please don’t make unnecessary infighting within one of the last remaining utopias on the internet please

Nope Nope Nope.

I don’t agree with OP creating infighting within the fediverse, but I really do agree with his points on defederating.

Have you heard of the term “Embrace, Extend, Extinguish”? It was Microsoft’s motto in the 90s to early 2000s of destroying free and open source competition.

The first step: “Embrace” meant to embrace the competition’s protocol. Things like the Open Document Format, or in this case ActivityPub. They would make a product that used that protocol, pretending like they were contributing to it.

The second step: “Extend” meant to extend the protocol. They would divert from the way the original protocol worked, and adding more features that would attract the users on the original platform to their one. They would do this in a way that the original platform wouldn’t be able to catch up and get feature parity with them, such as making their new protocol closed source.

The final step: “Extinguish” would be that when enough users migrated away from the competition’s original platform, they would basically have stolen all the users, profited off the volunteers that made the original product, and made a worse, closed source, non-free alternative.

I know it’s pretty fucked up, but this is an actual thing that happened, and it’s not just Microsoft. Google’s done it with XMPP, and Facebook is probably doing it with Threads this time around.

Here’s some more stuff to read about it if you are interested:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

btw, can we stop using the name meta and call them Facebook? i feel like the Facebook brand has worse connotations that should be leveraged to get people off their horrible platforms

I really hope that we learnt our lesson with the other platforms and don’t go blindly trusting mark fuckerburg with our federated platforms.

that’s the opposite of what I’m saying, I’m worried that if we federate with mark cuckerburg they would EEE our non tech savvy people away

yeah, I NEED a vibrant rain world community

very cool! we need more ux/ui designers in open source and free software!

I am worried because I want and we need non geeks to be on lemmy as well for it to be great.

Also consider Embrace Extend Extinguish, he is using federation purely as a resource to stand on