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My journey with Lemmy started in 2022 out of interest in the fediverse and paranoia around how much control social media companies have, and how little choice common people are left with over the Internet.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

How do you have reliability without servers? That is essentially the role of the instance admin—to manage the server.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Servers are fine, but your identity shouldn't depend on a single one. On Nostr for example, servers are just there to relay the content to other peers. The servers are interchangeable and you don't depend on any of them.

Sadly, Nostr doesn't have good content and is kinda overrun by crypto bros.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Give it time. I know there was a lot of discussion about account backup and migration a while back. There is only one full time Lemmy dev, so who knows what the program will look like in a few more years and with a few more dollars for code.