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What are the practical benefits of the fediverse? (self.fediverse)

submitted 2 years ago by JollyTreecko to c/[email protected]

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I don't fully understand how lemmy works completely yet. But for example I made an account at Division by zero and subscribe here to post. Is it not just a more inconvenient version of making a reddit account and being able to post practically anywhere?

Also what's the difference between making an account at one instant and just making one centralized account for the social media?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I’m not sure how active you are on Reddit or if you saw what happened this previous summer, but that is exactly what we thought until the API fiasco. Then Reddit showed us exactly how little control/voice we ultimately have over our communities and the site as they called us (mods) “landed gentry” then began forcibly removing mods from their communities despite having a mandate to keep their subs private or otherwise.

On a day-to-day basis, it works fine. But that was a wake up call for a lot of people. They can pull any rug they want at any time out from under us. We have no rights on the site. We have no say. But if I want to stand up an instance today, I am my own admin and my community/structure can be exactly what we thought we had on Reddit (but clearly didn’t).

Edit: also Reddit doesn’t care about accessibility and claims it’s been a “concern for a long time” as they dedicate resources to dumb one off projects like their clubhouse rip-off that lasted months and NFT “snoovatars” (can’t believe they pushed that with an straight face).