Francicles…

I’m using Mullvad.

Don’t be surprised. Such quirks are unimpossible in English… /s

I know. It’s Extremely Infuriating. But I found only one community for Extremely Infuriating that appears to be a ghost town.

Which is why I posted this here.

I, too, do not have answers to these questions.

What I do know, is that - “The internet is as Transient or as Permanent as you want it to be”.

Public resources like Community funded open source projects - e.g. GNU Project and Linux have long been established names - while inspite of being backed by heavyweight Corporations, people hardly remember Entities like Orkut, Myspace, Digg nowadays.

Yes, indie servers may go down more frequently than their heavyweight corporate competitors, but there will always be new minds cropping up who believe in FOSS philosophy and sharing - because lack of Monopoly is what makes Fediverse a nice place.

I have to agree with you on this. What the Fediverse is sorely lacking is a way to “port” our profile to another instance, or at least back our stuff up and restore our home in another instance in case the current instance blows up for whatever reason.

I guess this proposal has been floated already in GitHub but let’s see.

Why not leave on my own terms instead? Lol.

It’s like quitting smoking - it’s the easiest thing to do, smokers do it 5 times a year./s

with keys held by individuals

Emphasize on the plural.

These “individuals” are exactly that, independent individuals who maintain their own instances, but being federated would mean that the content in each Lemmy instance is visible by other instances (unless they are defederated, which as I understand happens very rarely, and only for irreconciliable differences between instances, which is serious).

And these independent “individuals” spend effort and money to run their respective instances with a common goal, share the info. That’s what Fediverse is all about.

Unlike the “individual” at Reddit (singular - looking at you creepy Stevie or whatever Board of Directors Fuckers you report to) - where the decision making powers lie really truly at an individual level.

That’s no good.

Lol

Happy to be able to inspire someone to leave that shithole !

Thanks. But I don’t care anymore. I did all I could to get rid of my contents, but those will somewhere be on the internet (at least on wayback machine) - nothing on the internet is lost forever.

Thanks, kind stranger !

I did go through a phase ( late August through early September) when I could not bear the sight of Reddit as a platform / corporation, but couldn’t deny the fact either that Reddit is a treasure trove of valuable content.

(Although in the end my hate for Reddit’s greed took over, and also the quality of the content there deteriorated slowly due to lack of good moderation - but I digress)

If you are going through such a phase - I might recommend giving Stealth app a try. It’s FOSS and available on F-Droid (I am obviously assuming you are an Android user, please ignore if not) , it is one of the most beautiful apps I have ever used, and if someone asks what that app is about, I say “Stealth is to Reddit as NewPipe is to YouTube”.

PS : I didn’t develop Stealth. I just liked using it when I was still giving Reddit a chance ( but fuck spez )

Lol

They can. Not sure if they would.

As the other post says - Lemmy users would be able to interact with Reddit, and Reddit users would be able to interact with Lemmy.

But the matter of the fact is -

(Userbase of Fediverse) <> (Userbase of Reddit)

And I believe Reddit bothers only about their own userbase, i.e. registered with them.

If I were spez I wouldn’t do it (but F U spez anyway)

Another victim of Reddit’s greed…

For a moment I read that as “Defederation”, and was thinking by myself - ‘Is Amazon next in line after Meta to get defederated…’

I am dumb.

A lot of people have already left Reddit Fuggit and moved to Fedi as we have seen over the past couple of weeks.

And those who are still sitting there, they are either in a dilemma and unable to make up their minds, or they live under a seriously big rock and have no idea what’s going on with this API saga, and the Third Party Apps stopping to work on July 1 will be a nasty surprise for them.

In short, it’s unlikely that they will overcome the surprise/dilemma in just a day and jump over to Lemmy immediately.

The Fuggit --> Lemmy migration will continue as it is today, but I don’t think there will be a catastrophic spike on July 1.