• fxomt@lemm.ee
    3·
    2 days ago

    I agree. Though my main concern was that Lemmy would gain too much control over the threads part of the fediverse it doesn’t seem to have happened yet. Its mainly a future concern for me.

    There’s nothing wrong with Lemmy or mastodon, but it’s nice JIC to have good alternatives like mbin n piefed.

    I’ve been thinking of making a project that would explain the entire fediverse (hopefully easily) and build a chooser, where it’d help by choosing a software and an instance. That is a good way to cull back a little on too much centralization IMO.

    Don’t get me wrong though, Lemmy or mastodon, I’m still happy that we’re getting more mainstream :D ultimately my points are just small criticisms.

    • pastermil@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      6 hours ago

      It’s a reasonable concern. The Lemmy codebase development is pretty centralized after all, despite its open source nature.

      I think Lemmy, Piefied, and mbin can band together with their shared identity of link aggregator. Fediverse and its ActivityPub protocol in their entirety is great, but it’s too much to keep in our limited mental capacity especially when we’re looking for something specific.

      So far, we’ve resorted to “the mainstream apps out there (e.g. Instagram, Twitter, Reddit, etc) and their alternatives on Fediverse” which is a good start, but doesn’t encompass the varieties out there (e.g. Reddit alternative is often only shown Lemmy).