I want the fediverse to be a success, and I’ve long wanted a reddit alternative based on the fediverse, so I found this very exciting. I also think it’s chance for a new and better culture than what reddit has, and I wanted to be there early to do what I could to contribute value and help it succeed.
This, plus no adverts (they hurt)
because I really like the technology and because it is a niche thing that feels like internet of many years ago, no coorporations, no one tries to sell me shit, it’s just about the community
Not corporately owned and thus I assume I am less of a data point for ad revenue.
My ISP authorities forcibly redirect reddit to lemmy in internet connections. They must be communists! 🤬
Baste
I think federated networks are the future. Lemmy is a shining example of that.
I grew to love the idea of mastodon and other fediverse platforms, and I hope to see lemmy take over the hole that reddit currently fills. Reddit, with its independent communities, already seems like prime pickings for a fediverse platform.
Saw the words “reddit alternative written in Rust” and didn’t need anything else to be sold on it.
Because I like the concept of federation.
I am a software developer, and find distributed and federated technology to be very interesting.
Trying to live a more private life. So I deleted reddit and joined Lemmy because it doesn’t spy on you.
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it’s not a new concept though. it is the way the internet was designed and everything used to work up until the point corporations managed to hijack the ecosystem so they could harvest data and make billions. the open and federated part of the internet is still here (IRC is still alive and well, for example, and open source is still a thing), the vast majority of people just don’t know about it because they weren’t around pre-corporate era, and all they know is what corporations tell them through anti-competitive moves stifle competition and isolate users.
i hope we will reclaim the internet one day, but governments don’t seem to care about keeping up to date with corporate abuse laws. i mean, point me towards one government that isn’t using Windows, for example; and the fact that nearly all governments depend on Windows is both unethical and in many cases illegal, since the tax money paid for infrastructure and IT development should ‘go back’ to the local population, not paid to a foreign corporation, especially not for decades, due to legacy issues.
I wrote about my reasons in detail here.
Yes. Wemust own pour tools ans data.
We must own our tools (
in fact this is the title and the essence of his five pages text.
I like this little write up.
thanks!
Because it’s foss and distributed. Because on Reddit I would refrain from engaging. Hopefully I can do it more on here.
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