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Your description sounds to me practically exactly to what lemmy and /kbin do. If you want to host a subreddit (community) you have to set up a server to be able
by jeena 3y ago
Your description sounds to me practically exactly to what lemmy and /kbin do. If you want to host a subreddit (community) you have to set up a server to be able to host that community. On that community you have full controll over moderation, etc. And then people can subscribe to that community if they want to and read about it either in their app or the frontend of their own instance.
- reaperman 3y agoI've been seeing a lot of comments like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36354667 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36354667 Which indicate that's really not the case. In my proposed system, the client would aggregate instances/subreddits, not the server/federation.
- vGPU 3y agoIf you could put together some kind of aggregator that gets around the defederation problem that would be amazing. Lemmy is owned and run by tankies who are extremely happy to defed anyone who doesn’t support their world view.
- Tijdreiziger 3y agoWhat do you mean by 'run by', in this context? I thought it was the case that instance admins can run their Lemmy instances as they see fit.
- vGPU 3y agoSee my reply to the other commenter.
- Y_Y 3y agoWhich instance are you talking about? Lemmygrad, for example, matches that description, but lemmy.ml does not. The software project doesn't (afaik) have any bearing on ideology or defederation.
- vGPU 3y ago“putting Uyghurs in concentration camps aint cultural genocide because they're extremists” https://raddle.me/f/lobby/96713/heads-up-the-tankie-behind-lemmy-ml-got-banned-from-r https://raddle.me/f/lobby/96713/heads-up-the-tankie-behind-l... I can’t vouch for the source but I have seen multiple reports of similarly disturbing statements.
- kgwxd 3y agoUsing the phrase “world view” has become a direct indicator of bigotry, misogyny, fascism, and other mindsets that are a real threat to basic human rights. I suggest finding a new euphemism.
- haswell 3y agoI’m sorry, but no, it hasn’t. The concept of a world view has always been core to the zeitgeist, and one of the primary ways people differentiate their general view on things as shaped by the circumstances of their upbringing, experiences and daily life. I hold the world view of a liberal, atheistic, environmentalist and consequentialist informed by a religious conservative upbringing that I managed to escape and decades in tech. The concept of having a world view is not offensive, and to claim that it’s a direct indicator of the negative connotations you list is rather odd. We all have a world view whether we call it that or not, and the subsets of bad behavior you describe do not hold a monopoly on the concept.
- vGPU 3y agoAhh, language manipulation. The hallmark of those who offer nothing of value. Kindly look up Weltanschauung.
- predictabl3 3y agoI don't see what the difference is. There's no reason that the user facing UX couldn't be identical. What's the difference between me.hitting subscribe and my client now checking two networks vs hitting subscribe and it telling my instance to follow another. Again, I'm annoyed Matrix is absent here. Not only can I trivially join rooms hosted on other servers, rooms can be given aliases on multiple home servers which means the rooms remain available even if the originating HS is unavailable. Matrix is a functional, growing, good federated network that really should be talked about more. There are even fledgling forum implementations built on top, it's just a different UX, similar to ActivityPub interop.
- dragontamer 3y agoThese are responding to the needs of the community. PeerTube became popular when Youtube changed its policies years ago. Mastodon became popular as Twitter degenerated. Lemmy / kbin is becoming popular as people lose faith in Reddit. Matrix probably will become popular if Discord makes a mistake.