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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think this is where lemmy/fediverse shines compared to reddit: you can have instances for niche things, yet be able to communicate with other instances. And each instance is free to have their own rules and (de)federate with others. Also the improved tools for searching/posting/modding of lemmy compared with old forums.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sure. I mean, having a single log-in for all of that is definitely useful, as is being able to chat with others. Defederation as a moderation tool is... overrated, but it is there.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why do you think defederation is overrated? Genuine curiosity.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Well, for one thing it only works asymmetrically. It's fine if you have a very specific source of issues that you can isolate and cut off, but it's not really useful if what you have is hostile users across the network. And it only protects the larger space. For smaller instances it's a choice between functioning as social media or not existing at all.

It's extremely far from a magic bullet, it is not resilient to large scale, systemic issues and the only reason its limitations haven't been apparent is that the AP ecosystem is too small to suffer most of the issues of larger social media.

Aaaaand it's designed to function via the petty squabbles of FOSS developer arguments, which I hate anyway. But that's a me thing.