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> its really not that complicated either I am used to reading complicated technical specifications, and my eyes were glazing over midway through reading your c

• dragontamer 3y ago
  > I do not see how an ecosystem where the groups you can join depends on the instance you join is much better than just having every group hosting a phpBB forum somewhere. Because those phpBB forums can merge together and form federations. phpBB forum#1 may only have 4-moderators (aka: Beehaw.org) and cannot handle high-traffic major.site.com. But maybe phpBB forum#2 (with very high traffic) can welcome forum#1 as visitors and posters. > The value in reddit was that it provided a 'single pane of glass' for all your interests. Yeah but its bullshit. It clearly doesn't work. Not necessarily because of the API-changes, but Reddit has troll-factories, subreddit invasions, and other such messes that require constant administrator support to keep things smooth. Federation grants new tools to solve these problems. If you've never come across these problems, don't worry, I'm sure you'll see it eventually if you ever become a moderator somewhere. I recognize that #RedditBlackout is about the API changes. But there's plenty else wrong with Reddit that I'm curious about these new tools being discussed. I'm not doing this because of the Blackout, I'm doing this cause I'm curious.