There is finally a decent alternative to reddit, after one has been needed for years? And it’s open source federated software?? AND I can sign up on an instance that supports free sharing of media?!
I have been waiting a long time for reddit to fuck up badly enough that something else could fill the vacuum they created and do it right. Awesome.
It’s what I dislike the most about the fediverse concept. It’s nice in principle, but it’s all far too fragmented, which not only makes it a lot easier to target specific servers, it also introduces the concern that is defederation.
The open source part is great, but the federation part will take a long time yet to convince me, if it ever does.
Targeting specific servers sounds like a problem of centralization, not fragmentation. If hosts can just easily move to new proxy servers, and users can easily create new accounts on any random server, then I don’t think the Fediverse would be easy to target. The direction that a lot servers are going, with having to type a paragraph to join, seems like the opposite direction to me, and it makes me appreciate this server more.