From the article: *Moving to the Fediverse

This tension between these communities and their host have, again, fueled more interest in the Fediverse as a decentralized refuge. A social network built on an open protocol can afford some host-agnosticism, and allow communities to persist even if individual hosts fail or start to abuse their power. Unfortunately, discussions of Reddit-like fediverse services Lemmy and Kbin on Reddit were colored by paranoia after the company banned users and subreddits related to these projects (reportedly due to “spam”). While these accounts and subreddits have been reinstated, the potential for censorship around such projects has made a Reddit exodus feel more urgently necessary, as we saw last fall when Twitter cracked down on discussions of its Fediverse-alternative, Mastodon.*

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    1 year ago

    Hmm. I can see that account, but I don’t see any posts (in the Mastodon app).

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      1 year ago

      it could be that your instance doesn’t have the post (e.g. no one else in the instance is following the account). Fediverse stuff is weird in that regard where it won’t fetch them from the other server either, but they will show up going forward if you follow the account.

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        1 year ago

        Ah, so when I subscribe and it shows up as “pending”, that’s me trying to connect the two?

        Still learning, thanks for the help.