Comment on ActivityPub and the End of Walled Gardens, with Evan Prodromou
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 11 months agoThis will happen naturally if the fediverse grows. It’s on us to keep the worker-run instances as viable alternatives so that the corporate players can’t take their toys and leave the sandbox without their users having an alternative.
I agree with that, but how? I don’t think we’re prepared for how they’re going to try take over or what that’s going to look like. If you have insight into that, that would be awesome.
I’m glad I watched it, and I now see that they want it to be a huge city with neighborhoods, which is a great goal. I don’t think the huge corps like meta, google, x, tinder, airnbnb, ebay, etc., are going to have the same goals.
I agree with that, but how? I don’t think we’re prepared for how they’re going to try take over or what that’s going to look like. If you have insight into that, that would be awesome.
I don’t know about insight but I think we need the equivalent of Wikimedia Foundation that runs these kinds of services. Personally, I find non-profit/coop/both instances to use and fund them/persuade others to fund them. For example Mastodon.social is run by the non-profit behind Mastodon itself. Lemmy.ca - my home instance is being converted to a non-profit org from and ad-hoc org. I donate monthly to that too. I’m also contributing to the Lemmy devs. I can afford to spare $30/mo for this and I do. Not everyone can but the ones who can should do it. The more people do this, the closer we’re gonna get to a model where it’ll cost some inconsequential amount of money for most people who donate - e.g. $2-3/mo. Having a set of financially stable hosts and development should provide the reliable alternative to corpo instances.
That’s a great way to look at it, keep the solid ones running.
How do you feel about the government alerts, schools and universities helping with that? In my ignorant opinion, it seems like those solid infrastructures would help keep it grounded too.
I think you’re right. Public institutions are likely good candidates for running these kinds of services, whether they’re the major players or not. If the Government of Canada decided to run a Lemmy instance, I’d be on it.
Docus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
We urgently need the ability to move your user account to another instance for that to work. At the moment, it’s not easy to move to another Lemmy instance, I would have to redo subscriptions, blocklists and likely pick a different username.
Unforeseen@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
This is now available as of 0.19. Before that you needed a 3rd party tool like lasim.
Docus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Good news, thanks for sharing. Not sure if any iOS apps support it though.