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Give it a try and let us know.

To be fair... it is not like this is a brand new thing. Traditionally email and other services like hosting and nntp were included with your hosting account. Although webmail and the tv crowd broke those expectations, I think we can expect a similar solution.

I have a mastodon account on a server hosted by a podcast that we all support. I can see a similar solution for all the many other interests and groups we involve ourselves in. Such as local LUGs, or any other number of groups/clubs that already are funded by their members and provide services for them.

At scale, I can't imagine it will cost much.

I can't help but think that the censorship would be way way worse if local governments were hosting. Not to mention that they would be most likely to require having people's true identities when creating accounts.

but its open source... there isn't much they can do other than beat their hands on their chest and make noise. ... which will not work.

Reddit wants to destroy the mods? Then reddit should see what a world without mods on the internet actually looks like… Especially before the IPO

To be fair... reddit was originally designed to be self-moderated by the users.. and it use to work really well. It would be a miracle if they moved back to that model and I would no doubt switch back to them from lemmy if they did. Those were the hey days of reddit and the internet as a whole.

Its not the loss of moderators, its the loss of content. If reddit hadn't changed their original self moderation model this couldn't happen. Or at least, not like this.

Moderators are not responsible for making content, they just moderate a sub where others create content. Originally users moderated content on their own.

Pretty funny how reddit's move to authoritarianism has worked against them this time.

I think most of them I'd be using on windows as well. Like blender, gimp, krita, librewolf, libreoffice, thunderbird, virtualbox, etc.. etc.. etc.. Although it was 15 years ago I had switched to mostly open source applications in the years prior to eventually switching to linux entirely.

If we're including those then I think we have gone full circle and are back in the safe waters of protocols

Then I will definitely go. Their new version is as bad as what digg is now. I could never use that.