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@TheButtonJustSpins It's like letting oligarchs monopolize the means of communication is a bad idea or something!? Who knew.

@Gaywallet

If 200,000 people would rather figure out how to make all their individual forum softwares work together in synchrony than put up with your bloody app, Reddit, maybe you have a pretty shitty app?

Dunno. I never installed it coz I never install any apps if I can help it, and I know how to use a web browser. But if a quarter of a million people would rather subject themselves to the complexities of distributed information networks and the politics of inter-instance blocking than use your bloody app, Reddit, maybe you have a pretty shitty app?

It's like the kids today don't know what a web address is with their obsession with apps. They seem to prefer to download an executable than read a text document. If even them, a million zoomer kids who are normally obsessed with apps, if even they would rather entertain the idea of a communications commons not owned and controlled by oligarchs than use your app, then maybe you should have just used yer IPO money to buy Apollo?

Dunno. I've never installed either. Sounds sketchy. I distrust apps.

@Gaywallet

@Spzi KBin wasn't even a thing when Chat GPT's training cut-off date happened.

Federation is having some difficulties currently, mostly due to things overloading or the solutions to the overloading. It'll get better as there are more instances.

@meteorswarm

@Veritropism Very likely. One would hope that the Microsoft Support Forum is hosted on Microsoft's servers, say, for sure.

If I end up using it a lot I'll host my own eventually, but doubt I'd have to pay to host popular groups on it.

@MasterBlaster @dusk @JohnEdwa

@agreenbhm Why it it worse to have multiple communities for the same topic spread across multiple instances vs having multiple communities for the same topic spread across multiple subreddits?

Seems like better redundancy and if they're all in the same app speaking the same protocols then similar functionally.

Even if there was only one subreddit why would it be better to have one instead of a long tail of many?

@fediversenews @atomicpoet

@JohnEdwa What happens is that people move to other instances and maybe start one with their friends, happens all the time.

Account migration will come to lemmy/kbin, and group-migration is really as easy as saying "Hey everyone, here's the new address"

@MasterBlaster @dusk

@MasterBlaster You'll be able to have your favourite ones without having to also subscribe to that one with that idiot who won't shut up about it. Conversations are better with lots of small groups than one big stage.

@bfr0 There were also multiple gaming communities within reddit, lets face it. Can't herd people all into one place even if there's only one website they'll find a way to schism

@proycon Mastodon, Calckey, Peertube, a few Wordpress, a bunch of static sites, my nextcloud.

@IronTwo Yep. I don't use Apple primarily because their ecosystem is too closed and you gotta register and buy a programming license from them to do any programming.

Screw all that, I'm staying where the ability to program my devices is guaranteed and I can load and run free software if I want and I don't have to get permission from mega-corp to change the apps I run.

@psylancer If you got 100 million users so that it's costing 400 million dollars a year, then ideally you need one million servers with 100 users on each. They need to all pass around a hat between their 100 users to raise the 50 dollars in server costs a month.

@Acetamide Reddit has been pretty terrible for years, I'm excited rather than sad to see their demise.