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Tough love coming then -- then unless we pay you directly, there's no good incentive for anyone to believe that you'll be able to always deliver your claimed ad

• veave 3y ago
  They don't seem to claim any advantages over Discord, at least on their home page.
• paulmd 3y ago
  It's self-hosted FOSS, you're not paying anyone directly and if you don't feel it delivers something you can write it yourself or pay to have it written. Anyway, this gets into a philosophical point about the whole Reddit exodus - ID federation and content federation are two different things, and when people talk about the friction of joining a forum vs clicking subscribe on reddit, ID federation is what gives you that, not content federation. And content federation introduces a lot of scalability problems, and difficulties deleting comments/etc. Yes, someone can notionally always crawl/cache you, but having it on your server is different from intentionally putting it out into a peer-to-peer CDN, or serving it to a bunch of different pods so they can put it in their members' feeds. Some people don't want that part, they want the content to stay on their self-hosted instance.
  • imtringued 3y ago
    Identity federation is dead because most apps only support a handful of oauth providers aka Google or Facebook or Apple instead of letting you choose one yourself. Identity federation also runs into the problem that oauth, etc don't let you have the same account on multiple oauth providers as a backup in case one of them shuts down.