Comment on Plebbit is a peer-to-peer Reddit alternative that allows you to self host and own your own community
Corgana@startrek.website 4 weeks agoI don’t get why people are so interested in the fediverse.
Because Mastodon is Twitter without the possibility of an Elon Musk and Lemmy/Piefed is Reddit without the possibility of a Steve Huffman. You clearly feel that you can do better than the collective efforts of the ActivityPub devs so I am rooting for you!
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
But we’re still at the mercy of the admins of the large instances. Most of the popular Lemmy communities are at lemmy.ml, lemmy.world, or sh.itjust.works. Eventually the admins of those instances will either turn evil (I argue that has already happened on lemmy.ml) or stop hosting the service, and then we’re still screwed. I don’t know mastodon well enough, but I’m guessing they have a similar problem with a handful of instances hosting a disproportionate portion of the content.
I don’t know that I can do better, but I can try something different. Plebbit is trying something different as well, so hopefully someone will find a good mix of tradeoffs.
I’m on Lemmy because it’s the least bad option at the moment for what I’m looking for, but I think it’s fundamentally flawed. Apparently the Plebbit devs do as well (or they think they can get away with a grift), and I hope there are lots of others out there quietly plunking away at their own project. I believe Lemmy will die eventually, and I’d really like to have an alternative ready.
ubergeek@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
So…
Start alternatives, on a host ypu maintain, and then everything can be ran perfectly how you want it to run
Problem solved.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
That saves the service, but the communities are still dead. The problem is the single source of failure.
ubergeek@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
There is no real need for the kind of permanence you think you need.
Imagine if a building could only be a bar, for perpetuity, and nobody opened any other bars, because that first bar existed.
Bars would suck for like… 99.99999% of the human population, huh?