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Megathread for Reddit Blackouts and News - Day 2 (beehaw.org)
submitted 3 years ago by [M] to c/technology@beehaw.org
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[–] 7 points 3 years ago* (7 children)

I'm surprised how quickly I've adapted to fediverse, Mastodon just didn't fill-in for twitter in the way that the lemmy instances have, once I learned how they work together.

Now that I have gotten over the first hump, it feels new and exciting enough to make up for the lack of diverse content. I really think lemmy/kbin can be the platforms that push forward an interoperable, self-custodial social media.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    I agree, the inherit fragmentation in the fediverse architecture has a certain negative impact on the microblogging experience for me (but I still won’t go back to a centralized platform ever again), but for Lemmy/kbin it fits perfectly. Link aggregation sites are already fragmented into separate communities by design.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Yepp, it works surprisingly well. I assume one of the similar communities will eventually "win" on one of the instances, like with similar subreddits over time. Also some instances will go full specific, like nature or movies or gaming etc. See the growth of lemmynsfw already, lol.

    I'm really liking it a lot. I wasn't too amused by Mastodon either, but as you say: for link aggregation, for specific communities, for discussing topics (and not being about people, but about topics) this is a perfect match.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    I even view the fragmentation problem in niche communities as a feature not a bug. Don't like the coffee community on one instance? Try checking out the coffee community on a different instance. You might like the second group of people better

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Presumably it's only going to get better over time. I was afraid I'd lose this part of the internet when Reddit went full corpo, but to be honest the quality of discussion on Lemmy makes up for the diminished content.

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