I was with Reddit for 12 years and bounced between Rif and Apollo, I am sad I am losing both

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    1 year ago

    And users will facilitate that process by glomming on to certain instances thinking that it matters to which they belong

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      1 year ago

      I’ve been pondering this very reason. It’s compelling for me to make my own instance so I have my own little slice of fediverse to call my own, and have access to the greater picture of it too.

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      Well if instances keep defederating each other, it does matter. Plus there’s the question of stability. Sure, you could make your account on some tiny niche instance, but what if the guy running it decides he’s had enough and terminates it? What happens to your account, your post history?

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        If you care about your account and your post history, you’re free to run you own instance. People are also working on mechanisms to sync community subscriptions between accounts, which would at least help the UX navigating multiple accounts. Lemmy also has an API that I’m sure users will be looking to create services to backup your content as well, if something like that doesn’t already exist.

        As for defederation, I’m only aware of these major reasons and all of them are legitimate:

        • Nazis
        • NSFL/CP
        • Sourcing illegal content (illegal from the defederating hosts side, and this really lends to the above two as well)
        • Growing pains as Lemmy explodes with new users

        The only thing a giant corporation could do is muddy the waters, but people who care about the future of Lemmy are working to prevent that https://wedistribute.org/2023/06/fedipact-blocking-meta/