Would be an interesting idea to fork and do a 'Lemmy Lite' which is just a single-person instance, doesn't host any communities, but lets you join communities/federate with them the same way a full install does.

Oh for sure--I just spun up a new droplet to throw it on. There are Docker instructions as well.

That's how I went. Time will tell if it eats storage etc, but so far I'm loving the control I have over who to federate with.

I wonder how that would work if an instance gets abruptly shut down. Maybe each time you make an account you get a 'recovery key' that you can link to your new account on a new instance, thereby taking ownership of your old posts (or at least the ones that got federated out of your old instance).

That's a good idea. Allow communities to choose if they are globally or locally subscribable.

You are now banned from r/pyongyang

Never thought about how this relates to net neutrality. Reddit was kind of becoming a "common carrier" for information, but as a centralized source it's in their interest to filter content for money's sake. Here in the fediverse the communities (and their data) are cloned but constantly updated across many independently owned servers. So no one server owner can ever really steer the discourse. We just need an official way to migrate a community in the case an instance goes down/stops meeting the needs of the community.

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Exactly. Bring all that discussion and content over here, then we are actually in control of it. We can't expect anything to change when Reddit thinks there's no viable alternative.

I feel like that could lead to issues as well. The best way for the fediverse to work is users spread out across many small/medium instances.

Mm, let's open these hexagon shaped icons. Nice hiss.

FML was the best. I had some app for it for android, not sure if it was the official one, but it was essentially just text and a few basic buttons. I could spend hours scrolling that thing.