The Fediverse just gives a path, it doesn’t restrict the paths. Anyone can make or join any community.
Comment on Does anyone else feel like Kurzgesagt is describing the Fediverse in their latest video?
theKalash@feddit.ch 9 months ago
These villages were separated from each other by digital rivers or mountains
But the concept of federation in the fediverse is exactly what removes these separations.
YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world 9 months ago
theKalash@feddit.ch 9 months ago
You could say the same about facebook groups or reddit. As long as you have an account on the platform, you can interact with any community on the platform. That’s not separation.
They were talking about the early days, where you had to make an account for every different forum or community you joined and there was no interaction between those different forums.
YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world 9 months ago
No, those are closed systems. You can’t start your own Facebook instance, you can launch a server with a lemmy instance.
theKalash@feddit.ch 9 months ago
But that’s just the technical aspect of how the site infrastucture works. Unless you’re someone that exclusivly browses the local feed, the fact there are multiple instances has little impact on the user expirence.
The point in the video was, that you used to only interact with people in a single community. Like, you were on a forum for a specific game and you talked with people about that game, usually not knowing much else about them. So you lived in the same village.
On today’s social media platforms, including the fediverse, that’s not really the case. I can interact with you in a forum about a game … and then see you post some political opinion in another community we share … and suddenly you’re no longer just in my village … you’re also a member of the rival tribe.
Corgana@startrek.website 9 months ago
Not really, each instance still has its own culture and rules. Federation just allows you to travel across borders with your same passport.
topinambour_rex@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Which isn’t what is described in the video.
Corgana@startrek.website 9 months ago
topinambour_rex@lemmy.world 9 months ago
No it’s old school forums like phpbb. You registered into each you joined.
theKalash@feddit.ch 9 months ago
Some definitly do, but I think it depends on which one you’re on and how you use it. All my communities are on other instances and unless it’s an extreme instance like lemmygrad, I basically don’t really care or pay attention to on which instance a community is.
Corgana@startrek.website 9 months ago
Just because they choose to be similar doesn’t negate the ability to be different if desired, something not afforded to people who ran communities on commercial platforms.