There is finally a decent alternative to reddit, after one has been needed for years? And it's open source federated software?? AND I can sign up on an instance that supports free sharing of media?!

I have been waiting a long time for reddit to fuck up badly enough that something else could fill the vacuum they created and do it right. Awesome.

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[–] randomguy2323@lemmy.fmhy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Its probably not going to last forever. Eventually they trollers will catch up and might want to take it down. And since its federated its just a few people runninga a server it will be much easier to take down. Not like reddit which is a big company have the resources and money .

[–] OmniGlitcher@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

It's what I dislike the most about the fediverse concept. It's nice in principle, but it's all far too fragmented, which not only makes it a lot easier to target specific servers, it also introduces the concern that is defederation.

The open source part is great, but the federation part will take a long time yet to convince me, if it ever does.

[–] dart@lemmy.fmhy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

Targeting specific servers sounds like a problem of centralization, not fragmentation. If hosts can just easily move to new proxy servers, and users can easily create new accounts on any random server, then I don't think the Fediverse would be easy to target. The direction that a lot servers are going, with having to type a paragraph to join, seems like the opposite direction to me, and it makes me appreciate this server more.

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