I run a few groups, like @fediversenews@venera.social, mostly on Friendica. It’s okay, but Friendica resembles Facebook Groups more than Reddit. I also like the moderation options that Lemmy has.
Currently, I’m testing jerboa, which is an Android client for Lemmy. It’s in alpha, has a few hiccups, but it’s coming along nicely.
Personally, I hope the #RedditMigration spurs adoption of more Fediverse server software. And I hope Mastodon users continue to interact with Lemmy and Kbin.
All that said, as a mod of a Reddit community (r/Sizz) I somewhat regret giving Reddit all that content. They have nerve charging so much for API access!
Hopefully, we can build a better version of social media that focuses on protocols, not platforms.
It’s interesting but I still think the federated universe still has too many quirks to be understandable by most people. To be honest, I haven’t bothered documenting myself so I might say stupid things but I can’t understand why identity is tied to a server, it seems like a terrible design mistake when it’s obviously the first thing i’d want to decentralise. In short, I’m me, it shouldn’t matter that I’m on beehaw, lemmy or some random mastodon or kbin server. Huge mistake imho.
Then the content obviously needs a lot more contributors but many of the good reddit contributors where also mostly tech illiterate and I’m still worried that the high complexity to enter the fediverse will put off many people and keep it a fun, but somewhat boring, little niche.
Your ID doesn’t need to be tied to any given server. You can move around and change your “home” server at will. Or if preferred you could stand up your own server for your usage, hold your identify on there, and still engage with the rest of Lemmy / fediverse.
It’s less a design mistake and more a technical constraint. A users identify exists as, at a minimum, a database entry. That database needs to live somewhere that the various fediverse servers can talk to. But you have complete freedom in where that database entry is, and can change your mind later.
So it already doesn’t matter if you’re on beehaw, lemmy or some random mastodon or kbin server - they all federate with each other (to varying degrees but that’s a slightly different conversation)
It matters in terms of keeping track of your subscriptions though, unless I’m missing something. I essentially need to decide if I’m going to use my account on server A and subscribe to all the federated content I want on server B, or vice versa. If A goes down or if I lose interest in it, I’ll need to re-establish somewhere else and resubscribe everything.
I guess the answer is to host your own instance and federate everything, but federation isn’t terribly reliable and then you lose the local view.
Correct, as of now, but the point is that you can resub elsewhere. This is entirely impossible on centralised private platforms like Reddit.
I think it’s important not to become overly attached to an identity on any social media platform, which is kinda the concept they’re going for here. Your post history doesn’t really matter in the big scheme of things for the most part and will still be there anyway unless that server shuts down (even then there’s ways around that if you’re really concerned).
Personally, I was already in the habit of creating a new Reddit account about once a year so that any previous baggage, things I’d revealed about myself and so forth didn’t follow me for too long. Once I got over that big karma number go up dopamine hit I stopped caring at all for my previous identities. I say this as someone who has accounts on Reddit dating back to almost the very beginning.