What Reddit Got Wrong
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After weeks of burning through users’ goodwill, Reddit is facing a moderator strike and an exodus of its most important users. It’s the latest example of a social media site making a critical mistake: users aren’t there for the services, they’re there for the community. Building barriers to access...

From the article: Moving to the Fediverse This tension between these communities and their host have, again, fueled more interest in the Fediverse as a decentralized refuge. A social network built on an open protocol can afford some host-agnosticism, and allow communities to persist even if individual hosts fail or start to abuse their power. Unfortunately, discussions of Reddit-like fediverse services Lemmy and Kbin on Reddit were colored by paranoia after the company banned users and subreddits related to these projects (reportedly due to “spam”). While these accounts and subreddits have been reinstated, the potential for censorship around such projects has made a Reddit exodus feel more urgently necessary, as we saw last fall when Twitter cracked down on discussions of its Fediverse-alternative, Mastodon.

      • WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world
        20·
        2 years ago

        On mastodon search for the account @news@beehaw.org it will be this lemmy sub but in mastodon. Commenting on posts in mastodon will also comment on the lemmy thread.

        • tcm@lemmy.world
          6·
          2 years ago

          Can you upvote or downvote posts through Mastodon? Or does that have to be done from a Lemmy instance?

        • zhunk@beehaw.org
          1·
          2 years ago

          Hmm. I can see that account, but I don’t see any posts (in the Mastodon app).

          • lindgrenj6@fosstodon.org
            10·
            2 years ago

            it could be that your instance doesn’t have the post (e.g. no one else in the instance is following the account). Fediverse stuff is weird in that regard where it won’t fetch them from the other server either, but they will show up going forward if you follow the account.

            • zhunk@beehaw.org
              7·
              2 years ago

              Ah, so when I subscribe and it shows up as “pending”, that’s me trying to connect the two?

              Still learning, thanks for the help.

              • Charlie@beehaw.org
                2·
                2 years ago

                Kinda. You’re server will not back-populate old posts from someone you just followed. However, you should get all future posts.

                If you find a thread on Lemmy and you want to comment on it in Mastodon, but you can’t find it normally, you can copy the URL to the thread or comment, paste it in Mastodon search, and then it should force-load that post. Then you can reply and comment on it as normal.

      • lindgrenj6@fosstodon.org
        8·
        2 years ago

        I assume it’s through activity pub - that’s how pixelfed and mastodon communicate as well.

        What I’m not sure of is if beehaw uses activity pub internally or it’s just there for fediverse integration.

    • 667@fedia.io
      2·
      2 years ago

      This seriously blows my mind. You’re commenting from Mastodon on a Beehaw thread which I’m reading and replying via Fedia.io. All this interconnection is amazing; it truly embodies the concept of an internet.

      We should remind people that we have zero qualms about email which is essentially a federated service. You can be on Gmail, Yahoo, or Bing and trust that your message will be delivered to where you point it.

      The only difference being that email is pointed to a particular user on a given instance, and here messages are pointed to magazines/communities.