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I like these federated services being kinda "rough around the edges" (programming.dev)
submitted 1 year ago by ICastFist@programming.dev to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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In part because it reminds me a bit of the old internet, with stuff being spread around everywhere.

Being "harder"* to understand than reddit, twitter or other big companies' services is also a good thing, because people should remember that they have a brain and they should use it.

  • "harder" because not everyone understands the fediverse right away, since usability is extremely similar

PS: ^superscript doesn't work with phrases? at least not on preview^

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[-] bradfeehan@aussie.zone 11 points 1 year ago

Imagine if back in the day all the PHPBB forums were federated

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 8 points 1 year ago

Reddit would never come to exist in that case, I think. MySpace and Facebook would probably've had a harder time growing. The sheer amount of php forums over the net was mind blowing.

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