And it also seems that mastodon can also be “syndicated” to these other communities, and vice versa? Is that true?
Are there limitations to any of this?
Apologies if this is not the perfect place to ask this question. I’m a lost old man. :-)
And it also seems that mastodon can also be “syndicated” to these other communities, and vice versa? Is that true?
Are there limitations to any of this?
Apologies if this is not the perfect place to ask this question. I’m a lost old man. :-)
I agree. I’m sad at the loss of my 12 year account over there and all the information it had built up. I’m sad to lose my niche hobby communities (for now). Even with that, I’m really hopeful that federated social media will eventually take off. Now we just need to make sure that major corporate interests don’t dig their gross claws into it (Meta is apparently making plans to do so).
I feel like Meta going into the fediverse shows that they can see the tide rising on decentralized social media. My main concern with the Meta instance is more about whether or not they’ll support account migration.
To me, the killer feature of the fediverse is the account migration. (it’s coming eventually to kbin)
Sure it’s nice (actually awesome) to see content from so many diverse communities… But the killer app is being able to move to a new server when you need to and get your followers to automatically follow you at the new location. This prevents enshittification to a large degree, because there’s no lock-in network effects.
Kbin may allow migrating between Kbin instances, but would they support migration to Lemmy instances? If not then not sure we could expect Meta to support it either.
Pure speculation but I think a likely scenario is Meta would have all their accounts registered on a centralised server, and only have the content decentralised.
My real hope is that it supports migration from Masto instances, because I have followers there that I’d rather have here since I like the UX better
If not full migration, maybe eventually they’ll support logging in with your masto account.
I’ve seen some cool discussions about decentralized identity and how it can be handled, but that’s probably still a future goal, not likely in the immediate future
I’m way over my head at this point though
Still, it’s fun so far even while it’s still under such heavy development, so I’m just vibing