Guide to Finding Lemmy Communities (Subreddits)

Each instance has an admin who can do whatever they want (eg delete the instance and permaban you) and on top of that each topic has a mod too. Plus your instance can be de-federated by others (what if your instance end up being a far right honeypot?)

The usual reply is that "but but then you can just move to another instance" but this is basically where the federated system fails for average people.

Just like with Mastodon the only way to use a federated system is self hosting a single user instance for your own profile.

Re: Guide to Finding Lemmy Communities (Subreddits)

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Post by htag » Sun, Jun 11, 2023, 5:16 PM UTC

unpopularopp wrote: post #5

>Don't overthink this. It doesn't matter which instance you use. Nah. Disagree and I don't even know why is this highlighted. It really does matter what you choose. Same with Mastodon. Each instance has an admin who can do whatever they want (eg delete the instance and permaban you) and on top of that each topic has a mod too. Plus your instance can be de-federated by others (what if your instance end up being a far…

All of the same arguments can be made for SMTP, and hosting your own server there.

Re: Guide to Finding Lemmy Communities (Subreddits)

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Post by bscphil » Sun, Jun 11, 2023, 5:20 PM UTC

htag wrote: post #6

unpopularopp wrote: post #5

>Don't overthink this. It doesn't matter which instance you use. Nah. Disagree and I don't even know why is this highlighted. It really does matter what you choose. Same with Mastodon. Each instance has an admin who can do whatever they want (eg delete the instance and permaban you) and on top of that each topic has a mod too. Plus your instance can be de-federated by others (what if your instance end up being a far…

All of the same arguments can be made for SMTP, and hosting your own server there.

And those would be good arguments, if the SMTP landscape looked different. I think the OP's views would be best summarized by "either host your own server, or go back to Reddit". Similarly, you shouldn't be using random-joe.biz as your SMTP host. You should use Google, Fastmail, or a handful of other reputable providers you can probably count on one hand. Or host your own server.

Re: Guide to Finding Lemmy Communities (Subreddits)

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Post by bioemerl » Sun, Jun 11, 2023, 5:21 PM UTC

Please use kbin instead - It's not run by literal Chinese state apologists.

Re: Guide to Finding Lemmy Communities (Subreddits)

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Post by lolinder » Sun, Jun 11, 2023, 5:24 PM UTC

htag wrote: post #6

unpopularopp wrote: post #5

>Don't overthink this. It doesn't matter which instance you use. Nah. Disagree and I don't even know why is this highlighted. It really does matter what you choose. Same with Mastodon. Each instance has an admin who can do whatever they want (eg delete the instance and permaban you) and on top of that each topic has a mod too. Plus your instance can be de-federated by others (what if your instance end up being a far…

All of the same arguments can be made for SMTP, and hosting your own server there.

The difference is that email is private. The contents of your email are not seen as being endorsed by Google just because you have an @gmail.com address, so Google doesn't have an incentive to ban you just because they find your politics odious.

In the fediverse calls to defederate happen pretty regularly, and the reasoning is sound—your instance will be publicly mirroring any content on a federated instance, so if you don't want to publicly host extremist views (from either wing) your only option is to defederate from instances that allow them.

Re: Guide to Finding Lemmy Communities (Subreddits)

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Post by newaccount74 » Sun, Jun 11, 2023, 5:24 PM UTC

unpopularopp wrote: post #5

>Don't overthink this. It doesn't matter which instance you use. Nah. Disagree and I don't even know why is this highlighted. It really does matter what you choose. Same with Mastodon. Each instance has an admin who can do whatever they want (eg delete the instance and permaban you) and on top of that each topic has a mod too. Plus your instance can be de-federated by others (what if your instance end up being a far…

I heard that the ActivityPub protocol is pretty inefficient when you have lots of small instances, so I would think joining an existing instance should be preferred.

I'm not sure why you think that switching instances is too hard for avg people but running your own isn't?