Comment on Does anyone else feel like Kurzgesagt is describing the Fediverse in their latest video?
YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world 9 months agoNo, 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.
YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I am subscribed to several different instances of lemmy and I go to all of them through LW all sorted by new.
theKalash@feddit.ch 9 months ago
You mean you have accounts on different instances? I guess that is kind of a workaround that avoid the problem in the video. Then, you could just as easily make a separate facebook account for each group you join. But I don’t think that’s how most people will use it.
YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world 9 months ago
No, I just use my LW account, but I could make other accounts if I wanted to. I could use Mastodon or any other service to browse the Fediverse with.
Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
I guess they meant community rather than instances