nice reddit clone
Would be sad if something happened to it...
Lemmy
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Re: Lemmy
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's interesting about this is not that it's a reddit clone, of which there is no shortage, but that it's a federated reddit clone. It speaks ActivityPub, the protocol used by Mastodon.
Why is that interesting?
The potential for a shift from online interaction mostly taking place in centralized, corporate-owned systems to federated ones without any centralized control is interesting. In the previous shift from small siloed websites to big centralized services, reddit largely replaced message boards, and a large-scale shift to federated systems will require a replacement for that.
That's not to imply a shift to federated systems is inevitable, though I do consider it desirable.