• Frisbeedude@sopuli.xyz
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      It’s a flaw in the fediverse concept. Federation is great, but if you have a big server run by a freelance admin who decides to take some time off without notifying anyone people will search for a more reliable solution. Or just go back to reddit.

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        That’s why reliable servers have more than one single admin.

        I guess we should educate more about that, actually I was surprised that feddit.de was run by a single person

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        Federation makes sense for a Twitter replacement. Not so much for a Reddit replacement. I get the feeling that we are at an end to the experiment. Eventually, people will realize that we cannot replace Reddit with a Fediverse based solution.

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          Why not? Having a look at Hexbear and Lemmy.ml, I think they are good examples why instances are good.

          Blahaj comes up as another example

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            So many instances block Hexbear and others. We are well on the path of creating separated communities, just with the added headache of having to police federation. Not to mention the problem of power users and out-of-control mods, which federation makes worse rather than solving them.

            Ultimately, I think a real Reddit replacement will have to think hard about fixing the fundamental problems of this form of social media, rather than attempting to use buzzwords or cool new ideas.

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              We are well on the path of creating separated communities

              We might, but compared to what it was when those very distinct group of people stumbled upon each other, it wasn’t really pleasant either.

              A potential scenario might be a few groups of federated servers

              • hard left: hexbear, lemmygrad, lemmy.ml
              • servers that block the first group, because they think it’s better: e.g. blahaj
              • server who will federate with everyone: lemm.ee, reddthat, etc.

              And I guess it’s okay. People can move their subscriptions in two clicks anyway, it’s easy to change instances

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                Again, that doesn’t solve any of the fundamental problems of a Reddit-clone.

                Anyways, our opinions don’t matter. If I’m right, the communities we’re on will quietly fade away.

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                  Again, that doesn’t solve any of the fundamental problems of a Reddit-clone.

                  Which problems are you thinking about? Network effect? Echo chamber due to voting system?

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                    The main ones are that certain users or groups of users end up dominating each community, and that mods become abusive over time. Brigading and bigotry are big issues too. You also mentioned echo chambers, which I agree is another issue, although that is present in many social media platforms.

                    Unfortunately, federation doesn’t solve these issues. At the very least, some kind of basic improvements are needed. Ideas like preventing large communities from dominating the front page, removing or limiting the effect of downvotes, or having more checks and balances for what mods can do, are necessary. But none of that happened. So this attempt at a Reddit clone is just ending up as a bad Reddit clone. Which is probably why Lemmy/Kbin/Mbin will slowly fade away, once people realize that it is just a Reddit clone.

                    This won’t be the final attempt at creating a replacement for Reddit. Eventually, enshittification will destroy Reddit, and something else will replace it. But it probably won’t be the Fediverse’s attempt at it.