Self imposed gatekeeping. Damn that's real
People over complicate federation. I write federated software so lemme break it down. Federation just means data sharing. When you post something on a federation enabled website it sends a copy of your post to everyone who follows you and tells their service to store your data in their database in addition to their own data. What this means is that you can't just blow up a server to shut it down because everyone in the game has a copy.
I use the micro blogging feature inside magazines where I'm asking for help that doesn't require a link to anything. It acts like a standard forum in that mode
I realized why I like kbin more while I was writing a front end for Lemmy. On Lemmy you have very limited control over filtering and sorting e.g
"Top" granularity is only at the day level whereas in kbin you can do hours. Lemmy only has a single "hotness" filter whereas kbin has the same granularity for hotness as it does top.
Race conditions are the worst
We got the smart people from Reddit
this is a kbin magazine heh
Startups inside companies usually get shut down once the bill gets too high. I've experienced this first hand
I actually like the UX of this site better than reddit it doesn't have anything to do with politics
At first I was like...uh... heh
This is my biggest fear. The hidden weakness of the fediverse is that the largest implementation gets to set the rules of federation