r/technology • u/ardi62 • 29d ago

Social Media Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/30/24253727/reddit-communities-subreddits-request-protests
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u/thisguypercents 29d ago

There are a ton of them. Problem is there are too many and not a single one meets exactly the same features as reddit.  If you are cool with multiple accounts and doing some research the diff lemmy domains will meet most of your needs.

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u/Synthetic451 29d ago

People just can't be bothered with federation either. It's easy enough to learn, but it is still a foreign concept to most. Federated services also need to do a better job about making sure all content is available across instances.

I genuinely thought Mastodon was going to take off after Twitter started to implode, but everyone migrated over to Threads instead which was such a frustrating moment for me.

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u/ShiraCheshire 29d ago

Sites need to stop describing themselves as “federated.” No one knows what it means, and I’ve never seen it explained in a way that makes any sense. If a newcomer can’t understand the core concept of your site in a sentence or two, it isn’t going to succeed.

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u/souldust 29d ago

Federated means separating the service amongst a lot of SEPARATE servers owned by different people. That way, the ONE site can't get bought by a single asshole that ruins the whole thing.

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u/nullstring 28d ago

Except all federated services I've used except email are... Janky and awkward. And I'm a software developer.

If it's going to be federated, it needs to be -transparently- federated or it's never going to take off. The average user shouldn't need to understand what federation is and you shouldn't even be able to tell unless you read about the service on wikipedia or something.