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Don't Contribute Anything Relevant in Web Forums Like Reddit

TL;DR: all of the content of closed, centralized services will be lost in the long run. Choose the platform you contribute to wisely now instead of learning through more large data loss events later-on.

  • DrivingForce
    5·
    4 years ago

    Is federated platforms really that much better? I don’t know how hard it would be to get your data off a federated instance that banned you for example.

    What do you need to do to get your data from instances?

    • disrooter
      5·
      4 years ago

      If federated platforms mean Mastodon or Lemmy alone then no, but if people will use their own blog federated together with ActivityPub and so with Mastodon, Lemmy ecc then it would be much better. The interactions of today social networks plus the longevity of personal web sites.

    • koavfOP
      3·
      4 years ago

      Federated platforms aren’t as liable to become centralized (this is my supposition, we’ll see). I mitigate this by posting the same content to multiple instances of Mastodon. As disrooter mentions, redundancy with your own site is best.