Comment on Does anyone have any good introductory, Fediverse infographics I could share?
Tehdastehdas@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Who made this? I’d like it if it said Matrix is federated, Signal is not. Meta should be clearly grouped together. Aren’t there other alternatives to Reddit than Lemmy, so there should be more arrows going out of Reddit?
Something should be said about fringe servers (I’d never say “instance” except “server = instance”) and defederation both ways being common, so your home server choice matters. The email comparison is broken and should include “in principle” and then continue with “in practice [real situation]”. This is a start:
I like the yellow bubble here, but it’s inaccurate in many ways:
The infograph we’re looking for should also say at least:
- Censorship is done by server administrators and community moderators, but (on Lemmy at least) posting community censors you, not your home server.
- Your votes are public, you can be tracked, but it’s not done by default.
- On Lemmy, you shape your default firehose (‘all’) feed by muting (users, communities, servers), not by following. A normal person will have to mute tens of communities for the feed to start looking tolerable. This is one of the many prices of freedom you will have to pay, as are bugs and user experience issues.
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