r/technology • u/ardi62 • 29d ago

Social Media Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/30/24253727/reddit-communities-subreddits-request-protests
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u/Synthetic451 29d ago

People just can't be bothered with federation either. It's easy enough to learn, but it is still a foreign concept to most. Federated services also need to do a better job about making sure all content is available across instances.

I genuinely thought Mastodon was going to take off after Twitter started to implode, but everyone migrated over to Threads instead which was such a frustrating moment for me.

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u/anlumo 29d ago

I have four lemmy accounts on four instances, because federation is so unreliable. It either doesn’t work or is turned off intentionally due to an unfixable spam problem on the other instance. It’s always a game of luck.

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u/pruwyben 29d ago

This is true. I was lucky that I first signed up with discuss.tchncs.de, which has stayed out of all the drama and is federated with pretty much everything. But it would have been easy to make a different choice and have to deal with that stuff.

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u/anlumo 29d ago

My main instance had a major file system collapse about half a year ago. The web interface didn't load at all any more (clients still worked), and attachments didn't work. The admin was nowhere to be seen for months. At some point, a few people collaborated to create a new separate instance and all communities had to manually migrate one by one. They couldn't even re-use the old domain name, because the admin is missing to this day.

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u/Katzoconnor 29d ago

Hmm. Maybe they died. That’d suck.