@Kathrin @feditips I think Reddit model can actually be better federated than Mastodon... The reason Mastodon sucks (i.e. everyone I know talks about how they're talking in the void on Mastodon) is because Twitter's algorithmic tools are part of the reason for its success. If someone was to make a distributed Reddit where voting up posts mattered, and you could surface upvoted posts to readers, it could catch up a fair bit. Who cares if one instance is more likely to be the Star Wars instance, and that there are 6 Star Trek instances? If I'm on an Expanse-focused instance and I can federate posts from SW and ST instances (maybe the upvotes from my instance count more than their total number of votes from all instances?) I can access that viral experience that Masto declined to embraced by not doing QTs or algos.