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A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, KBin, etc).

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What are the practical benefits of the fediverse? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I don't fully understand how lemmy works completely yet. But for example I made an account at Division by zero and subscribe here to post. Is it not just a more inconvenient version of making a reddit account and being able to post practically anywhere?

Also what's the difference between making an account at one instant and just making one centralized account for the social media?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (7 children)

Are you familiar with enshitification? Lots of smaller instances people can run themselves holds off the platform enshitifying.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (6 children)

How is that different than just making different smaller subreddits? I did notice some instances have themes, like tech or electronics. So is it that if one instance enshitifies there would be many other instances with tech related communities?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Pretty much. By splitting the platform into smaller chunks (instances) you reduce the effect any one instance has on the rest of the platform. The price for this is convenience however over time people will find solutions for this.

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