And it also seems that mastodon can also be “syndicated” to these other communities, and vice versa? Is that true?

Are there limitations to any of this?

Apologies if this is not the perfect place to ask this question. I’m a lost old man. :-)

  • aebrer
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    01 year ago

    I feel like Meta going into the fediverse shows that they can see the tide rising on decentralized social media. My main concern with the Meta instance is more about whether or not they’ll support account migration.

    To me, the killer feature of the fediverse is the account migration. (it’s coming eventually to kbin)

    Sure it’s nice (actually awesome) to see content from so many diverse communities… But the killer app is being able to move to a new server when you need to and get your followers to automatically follow you at the new location. This prevents enshittification to a large degree, because there’s no lock-in network effects.

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      01 year ago

      Kbin may allow migrating between Kbin instances, but would they support migration to Lemmy instances? If not then not sure we could expect Meta to support it either.
      Pure speculation but I think a likely scenario is Meta would have all their accounts registered on a centralised server, and only have the content decentralised.

      • aebrer
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        11 year ago

        My real hope is that it supports migration from Masto instances, because I have followers there that I’d rather have here since I like the UX better