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orcrist@lemm.ee 5 weeks agoThe ideas leading to Lemmy go back at least a decade, that I can remember. There are many little things that people figured out when developing distributed federated social media networks of this type. It’s a success story of collaboration over a long time with a shared goal of making Reddit and Twitter easy to replace with a superior product.
echodot@feddit.uk 5 weeks ago
I’m surprised that nobody has tried to turn Facebook into a distributed service or perhaps they haven’t they just haven’t noticed.
I’m not really interested in a Twitter alternative is I never really used the original. But I would like a less shitty Facebook.
If somebody could basically just make Google plus again, but then actually let people use it, that would be great.
Grappling7155@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
Diaspora exists, but it’s small