I am assuming many of you have heard about the potential of Meta creating an ActivityPub enabled client (TheVerge, PCMag etc. have made articles). I was just wondering what people’s thoughts are on this, and if it came down to it should instances in the fediverse defederate from it considering it could be a case of Embrace, extend, extinguish.

There’s a DefederateMeta magazine at !DefederateMeta@fedia.io if you’re interested, which includes an anti-meta pact on cryptpad with the responses viewable on a seperate website if you care to see which instance admins have agreed.

I’m just curious what my fellow sh.it.heads think of this development in the fediverse, any input is appreciated!

  • RoundSparrow @ SJW@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I think it’s just a matter of time before there are alternate-federated networks for Lemmy… different lists of federated servers that the install peers with.

    I’m just curious what my fellow sh.it.heads think of this development in the fediverse, any input is appreciated!

    I think performance problems with the Lemmy database lead to a lot more fragmentation… it didn’t scale well and instances were telling people to spread around. That and the discovery of remote instances being unintuitive - plus the data replication problems (see: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3101) has laid a rather chaotic foundation. People are still trying to get their server installs up and running today, there are a huge number of servers, and I expect when those severs go offline there will be a mess left over of orphan posts, comments, etc.

    I don’t think anyone planned it this way, they were working for several years to create an alternative to Reddit and you find communities with mods who created them 3 years ago and stopped using Lemmy… it will be an interesting year, for sure.