I’ve been looking for a free Reddit alternative and preferably one that was federated. I’m not really sure how federation works with this though. A lot of similar sites are just personal projects that people made as a hobby that lack a lot of important features or the interface was really ugly.
I haven’t seen how to moderate communities though but the Github page says this can be done, which I consider important since I want moderation to be done by communities and users rather then admins. If there’s a quarantine feature similar to Reddit that would be useful too so I don’t just have to ban communities.
There are certainly 50X more groups I am interested in compared to ruqqus or votal.net and that fills me with glee.
I am turned off by the leftist bent, though. I realize that a person’s mindset is often reflected in politics, but that isn’t always the case. I get really tired of politics and religion, because both are full of hypocrites and both lead to fighting because ideologies so often lead to intrusiveness. Forcing a person into a box also seems very wrong to me. I hate the Right and Left equally for that reason. I belong to ME, not to YOU or to society! But, i didn’t sign up for most politically-motivated groups, so this should work out fine for me. I thought this would be connected to Element, Jitsi, Mastodon, irc, XXMP, and other federations, but I am not seeing icons with links, windows, or menus for that. I am very new to the federated concept and it is rather over my head - though, it is something I hope to understand, because it represents freedom to me.Funny to see that they got banned after a few hours for being an alt-right memelord. I guess this platform wasn’t what they were looking for after all…
