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ZiggyTheZygote@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I think everyone here has been banned from there. I joined like a month ago, I think? I had three accounts taken down because of ridiculous reasons just like most people. Kind of like people in jail keep saying “I’m innocent, i didn’t do nothing”. Anyway, i like it here, it’s low-key, not too overwhelming and cluttered like the other one. People are friendlier. So stick around. Also, why are you so freaking out and feeling ashamed or guilty of what happened?
CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Not everyone. I’ve never caught any kind of Reddit discipline. There are a few of us around who indie web/fediverse enthusiasts who deeply believe in the project.
ZiggyTheZygote@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I know it’s not everyone it’s just for dramatic effect. Are you talking about the lemmy project? Can you tell me more if you don’t mind?
CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I am not — I think that were I to stand up a threadiverse instance today, it’d be a piefed instance. I think it’s already a better product and that it has a better governance structure that means it’s going to continue to improve faster than Lemmy.
Which is not to get down on Lemmy! To the best of my knowledge, it was the first of its kind in the fediverse, and the Lemmy devs solved a lot of thorny problems. And the lemmy.world admins have been incredible hosts — I’ve modded a half dozen communities and still never had to take a mod action.
No, I meant the larger project. I came to the fediverse back when ActivityStreams was published in 2017. I didn’t quite see the vision until ActivityPub was published in 2018, but you could see the promise of social media interoperability even in those first few steps. I don’t know if you remember, but there was a time when the World Wide Web was a very small part of an internet that was divided into tiny silos, but for me, I saw the release of activitypub the same way — the w3c has come in and put together a reasonable way for everyone to play in the same sandbox together.
And I think ActivityPub has done it. I can boost my bookwyrm posts from mastodon to tell people about what I’m reading. I can cross-post to piefed from my pixelfed by @ mentioning a community. I hardly even notice when I interact across instances and services.
For me, the thing that is exciting about Lemmy is that it is a small backwater on a weird, wide beautiful world of people who are all talking to each other in the way that makes them the most comfortable, in small groups and enclaves that have the frontend and moderation policies that best match their needs, but that they can still talk to everyone else. It’s more like email than reddit, and to me that’s what’s most exciting.
ZiggyTheZygote@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I appreciate your answer, but to be honest I can’t claim I understood everything that you mentioned. I did a quick search but I need some time to delve into that to understand how it works and connects. At first glance it seems interesting and evolutionary, hopefully I can understand it. Thanks again.