this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2023
188 points (98.5% liked)

Fediverse

17786 readers
28 users here now

A community dedicated to fediverse news and discussion.

Fediverse is a portmanteau of "federation" and "universe".

Getting started on Fediverse;

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
deadsuperhero@lemmy.ml
wakest@lemmy.ml
188
do you think the fediverse could replace popular social media (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by Bicyclejohn@lemmy.ml to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
162 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

At the moment the internet is flawed, do you think the fediverse is the solution?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I saw a comparison here between the Fediverse and other federated services like emails and POTS. I think there are a lot of similarities, but if that's true, the Fediverse still has a long way to go before it matures like traditional federated services like email. Things like spamlists and increased interoperability will be needed eventually.

At least in the short-term, I think Lemmy has a good base here to take over from Reddit, and the increased focus will help the Fediverse mature further. Lemmy won't be another Voat.

[โ€“] Phantom_Engineer@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Oh yeah, definitely not. FOSS combined with federation means that even if the main instance and dev team are toast, someone else could pick up where they left off and run with it. Lemmy doesn't necessarily need Lemmy.ml to function, which you couldn't say about voat (or Reddit, for that matter.)