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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Also, third party apps! I really don’t like the default Reddit app.
One plus is that it takes more than one autocratic greedy wannabe tyrant to enshittify your entire experience by forcing ads upon you while taking away all the good but not ad-delivery-optimised tools.
Is it not just a more inconvenient version of making a reddit account and being able to post practically anywhere?
Reddit is convenient, but then one corporation owns you and they can decide to fuck over anyone for any reason. Hence the 3rd party app fiasco.
No single entity owns the fediverse. It is a little more inconvenient if your server dies, but other servers survive. It is a little more inconvenient if your server blocks other servers and you don’t agree with the reasons why. That’s the trade off for not having one centralized asswipe in charge.
Also what’s the difference between making an account at one instant and just making one centralized account for the social media?
Not sure what you’re asking. You make an account on one lemmy server and that’s it.
The advantages of the fediverse are that there is no central ownership or structure of data. Your data is just your data, and your instance is just where you decide to host it.
You can sign up on one mastodon instance and start tooting and gather a following, if your mastodon instance starts enforcing rules that you don’t agree with (such as federating/defederating with meta) then your following belongs to you, not your mastodon instance and you can migrate your account.
Similarly the different services are just ways to present the same data as delivered by ActivityPub. I can access data posted to a Lemmy instance from Mastodon. I can follow pixelfed accounts from Mastodon. I can follow Mastodon users from Kbin, etc.
Right now big social media is like writing in the guest book and they let people look at it if you fill their requirements.
Federated social media is like sending an email to a public inbox that anyone can subscribe to as long as their instance maintains good standing with the sender.
The practical benefit is when things go wrong.
Imagine that you’d rather not deal with the Reddit admins, for whatever reason. You have two options: either you suck it up and deal with them, or throw away all Reddit content, communities and people, because of those admins.
Now imagine that you had some issue with the administration of your Lemmy instance. You still have both options above, plus a third one: migrate to another instance. You still have access to [mostly] the same content, communities and people as you did before; but you don’t need to deal with the admins of your older instance. You can eat the cake and have it too. That’s exactly what I did rather recently by the way.
Now imagine that you had some issue with the administration of your Lemmy instance. You still have both options above, plus a third one: migrate to another instance.
In theory, yes.
In practice, I strongly disagree with a number of decisions by the admins of my instance, but I’d rather keep ownership of the comments I have posted and would like to be notified if anyone ever replies to them in the future. Since I care more about the latter than the former, I’m not planning on moving instances at the moment. Guess I could create another account elsewhere, but I’d still have to check out the account on the old instance every once in a while. Plus I’d like to have a unified posting history. It sucks, and the technology is not quite there yet, but I hope true migrations between instances become a thing sooner than later. As far as I have been told, true migrations aren’t yet a thing even on Mastodon.
I hope that content migration (what you called “true” migration) becomes a thing in the future.
That said, the burden of checking your old account once in a blue moon is by no means that big. And if someone replied to you months after you posted something, odds are that the person can wait a bit before you reply them. You can also link your old account in your new one’s profile and vice versa, for more pressing matters.
So while I get your point (and it is a fair point - the migration isn’t completely costless), it’s still an option that you wouldn’t see in Reddit.
Are you familiar with enshitification? Lots of smaller instances people can run themselves holds off the platform enshitifying.
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?
Not subs, but the entire platform is Reddit can enshitify. More adds, no api, pushing nfts/crypto, etc.
