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FediTips has moved!Jun 2, 2023

WIth Reddit self-destructing, many have been wondering about alternatives on the Fediverse.

I do NOT recommend Lemmy. I have serious long-standing deep concerns about the developers, see here: https://mstdn.social/@feditips/106835057054633379

As far as I know, nothing has changed since then and Lemmy's issues remain.

Alternatively there's Kbin (https://kbin.social & https://kbin.pub) which seems less problematic. Regarding cryptocurrency issue: https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fediparty/pulls/97#issuecomment-663170

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Kathrin Jun 2, 2023

@feditips

I think a site like Reddit can't easily be federated. It bills itself as the "front page of the internet" because it's an aggregator for people to find interesting topics. If you distribute this, there will be many "front pages", which makes the whole "aggregator" concept nonsensical.

And having one Reddit clone as the new "front page" where people use federation only to comment on that site seems to defy federation, too.

Reddit will be succeeded by another centralized service.

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Grayson Page

@Kathrin @feditips I think the devil is in the details, but I suspect you're right in the final replacement.

I don't see a technical hitch in doing a federated setup, but that top level UI to see across instances (see pic) would need to be much more robust than it is in Mastodon where peering in/searching can be quite hard. I think that's more cultural than an ActivityPub tech limitation though (as I understand it).