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Never thought I would get emotional about losing an app (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I was with Reddit for 12 years and bounced between Rif and Apollo, I am sad I am losing both

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well if instances keep defederating each other, it does matter. Plus there's the question of stability. Sure, you could make your account on some tiny niche instance, but what if the guy running it decides he's had enough and terminates it? What happens to your account, your post history?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If you care about your account and your post history, you're free to run you own instance. People are also working on mechanisms to sync community subscriptions between accounts, which would at least help the UX navigating multiple accounts. Lemmy also has an API that I'm sure users will be looking to create services to backup your content as well, if something like that doesn't already exist.

As for defederation, I'm only aware of these major reasons and all of them are legitimate:

Nazis
NSFL/CP
Sourcing illegal content (illegal from the defederating hosts side, and this really lends to the above two as well)
Growing pains as Lemmy explodes with new users

The only thing a giant corporation could do is muddy the waters, but people who care about the future of Lemmy are working to prevent that https://wedistribute.org/2023/06/fedipact-blocking-meta/