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Lemmy and Mastodon feel like the real web3. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I think this decentralization and federation is what web3 is all about, without all the corporations calling everything to do with monkey pixel art that costs a million dollars "web3"

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I suppose the benefit to lemmy is that you could always migrate to another instance if yours starts pulling that shit

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As far as I know, while account migration is technically possible it isnt implemented yet, so if a server decicdes to shut up shop due to lack of funds your account there is lost and only federated content on other instances will be saved.

So once migration of user accounts and communities is implemented we should be able to easily survive waves of server closures.

I do worry that it will eventually coalesce into a couple of ultra-large servers and lose a lot of it's decentralisation though. gotta spread out!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I mean, I suppose creating alts on multiple instances might work as an alternative in the meantime. I don’t know if that’s frowned upon though.

Completely agree on the last point, though. It is crucial that we spread out!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I've made about 10 alts so far, just making sure to secure my username in case I do need to migrate somewhere

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I don’t believe it’s frowned upon. I have one here on infosec.pub and another on fedia.io. I primarily use infosec.pub though

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

True enough. And I know I’m just a drop in the bucket, but I will do exactly that if it ever happens.