Fuck u/spez

If all the content is on Lemmy.world

Another reason to spread the content across instances

Even if people running instances are saints, a lot of money can not only buy, but bully them into submission. Bullshit lawsuits is one way to do so before they are financially crippled. We are safeguarded only by our irrelevance.

Why won't it? I think user accounts need federation as well, but switching hosts isn't hard. Lemmy.ca went down a little while ago due to a power supply breaking. The admin has been great about it, moving away from the provider that took a day to fix the issue. But during the downtime I was able to use an account I has already set up on a different instance.

When reddit is down, it was really down. When a lemmy instance is down you can just use another. Don't get tied into just one host.

Instances can be bought by billionaires. The software can't. And I don't think many billionaires would buy a website running a software that they cant control tbh

I have blocked content from lemmy.world altogether and have so much fun. Go try it, leave the bubble.

people are going to be hesitant to move somewhere else

It is however much easier to move between fediverse instances than it is to move from commercial social media to the fediverse. Once you're on the fediverse, moving is easier.

You cannot protect yourself from that without making substantial sacrifices.

Feel free to, but also be ready to see your post removed anc your account banned

Can’t stop the signal.

To the account:
o7 f

It's pretty close to Reddit, but it's like a whole bunch of smaller Reddits that share posts between each other. The individual Reddits (instances) are generally grouped by hobby, political affiliation, or geographical location, but not always.

You can tell what instance something or someone is from by looking at their name or title. E.g. I'm from lemmy.zip, you can see it after my user name.

The reason that it can't be bought by a billionaire is that even if one instance is bought out, compromised etc, it can just be removed from the group at large, and it continues like nothing happened. I'm simplifying a bit but I hope you get the general idea.

Instead of 1 big website like reddit, there's a bunch of smaller websites like reddit. These sites are united in a way as users from one site can view, comment on, etc on other sites.

Something similar is Email. Even if you made your email address with Google to have @gmail.com at the end of your email address you can still send and receive emails from anyone.

Welcome to Lemmy, here are a few pointers to help you settle in

• !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca
• !communitypromo@lemmy.ca

Every instance has an admin. They are listed at the bottom of the sidebar of the instance.

The good thing is that every team of admins can manage their instance and the communities hosted as they want.

So if an admin wants to censor a certain topic on their instance, people will just move the community to another instance that would accept it.

A good example if !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com, which cannot be accessed from lemmy.world.