As Reddit’s enshittification reaches new heights their attempts to suppress attention for alternatives, like federated Lemmy, has the opposite effect as this Hacker News discussion shows.

  • Kichae@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I also see it as a feature. If instances have a natural active user cap, then server-based communities can’t get so big as to outpace moderation. And admins have the ability to moderate local users’ behaviour on off-site sublemmies by enforcing their own codes of conduct.

    The internet used to be small, but expansive. It became big, but concentrated.

    I liked the former. I know many people like the latter. Those people are welcome to their corporate slums.

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      I liked the former. I know many people like the latter. Those people are welcome to their corporate slums.

      You’ve worded it well. I think the technical nature of it is to its benefit, and many server may not want to make the signup process easier, for the reasons you mentioned.