• pastermil@sh.itjust.works
    3·
    2 days ago

    Keeping the verse alive one way or another goes with the spirit of fediverse. The case with .world does highlight the pitfalls of having an instance so big, but it highlight its success. The pitfalls can also be mitigated by having many other instances, big and small (e.g. sh.itjust.works, blahaj, db0, sopuli, lemm.ee, all the feddit instances) that although they have different names, they share the same banner of Lemmy. This is highly successful with Mastodon.

    Speaking of the same banner, wouldn’t it be great to have many different link aggregators like lemmy, mbin, piefed, and maybe others to share the same class identity or so instead of what they currently are? This way, they all won’t be treated like competing standards despite being on their own code base and feature set. Maybe with this, forks of the original Lemmy code can be created to address the stuborness of the devs.

    Yes, I am aware ActivityPub is supposed to achieve just this, but it also does a lot of things that are not relevant and even confusing to the specific use case (e.g. link aggregator). Also, newcomers would just get frustrated with all this tech stuff and ran off to the warm embrace of big tech.

    • fxomt@lemm.ee
      3·
      2 days ago

      I agree. Though my main concern was that Lemmy would gain too much control over the threads part of the fediverse it doesn’t seem to have happened yet. Its mainly a future concern for me.

      There’s nothing wrong with Lemmy or mastodon, but it’s nice JIC to have good alternatives like mbin n piefed.

      I’ve been thinking of making a project that would explain the entire fediverse (hopefully easily) and build a chooser, where it’d help by choosing a software and an instance. That is a good way to cull back a little on too much centralization IMO.

      Don’t get me wrong though, Lemmy or mastodon, I’m still happy that we’re getting more mainstream :D ultimately my points are just small criticisms.

      • pastermil@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        12 hours ago

        It’s a reasonable concern. The Lemmy codebase development is pretty centralized after all, despite its open source nature.

        I think Lemmy, Piefied, and mbin can band together with their shared identity of link aggregator. Fediverse and its ActivityPub protocol in their entirety is great, but it’s too much to keep in our limited mental capacity especially when we’re looking for something specific.

        So far, we’ve resorted to “the mainstream apps out there (e.g. Instagram, Twitter, Reddit, etc) and their alternatives on Fediverse” which is a good start, but doesn’t encompass the varieties out there (e.g. Reddit alternative is often only shown Lemmy).