More options and innovation is good, though I’m not sure there’s enough users yet to viably support a fourth mainline Threadiverse protocol. Mbin serves the same role Catodon is trying to fill and doesn’t have many users as it is.
Zedstrian
Moved over from Reddit after the API debacle. Primary account history:
@Zedstrian@kbin.social (2023) @Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com (2023–26) @Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz (2026–)
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The Federation Checker lists incoming and outgoing defederation for inputted instances.
Might be a pain to use in bulk though.
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Fediverse@lemmy.world•What is the current state of 'should defederate' lists?English
9·30 days agoFediseer perhaps?
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Fediverse@lemmy.world•There should be an indicator when an instance no longer federates with a community besides posts no longer loadingEnglish
2·1 month agoNot sure how; it’s also not by defederation date, otherwise feddit.org would be at or near the bottom of the list for dbzer0.
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Fediverse@lemmy.world•There should be an indicator when an instance no longer federates with a community besides posts no longer loadingEnglish
13·1 month agoThe best tool I know of is the Federation Checker, but something like it should definitely should be built into clients.
Notably, Beehaw is defederated from .world and sh.itjust.works, while dbzer0, quokk.au, and anarchist.nexus are defederated from feddit.org.
Lemmy Federate is designed to overcome this limitation through automated community federation.
This depends on the frontend or app you choose to use. Most Lemmy apps support in-app media uploads.
Herd mentality is just as much of a problem of Reddit; there’s just more users there, so more ‘herds’ are able to form.
Grouping all Lemmy users together falsely assumes they all share the same opinions and blocking preferences. In any case, instances attract users by tailored moderation practices; users should join the instance that best matches their preferences. While some viewpoints—such as those promoting fascism, transphobia, or racism—are generally unwelcome across major instances, a certain baseline is needed in civilized society to have discussions in which no one is excluded on the basis of who they are.
A very broad generalization about a wide array of moderators and rules across communities, but if you don’t like the way a community or instance is run, just block it and move on. I gladly block all of lemmy.ml and my All feed is better for it.
What gives that impression? While donating towards server costs is important, and a handful of notable instances such as lemm.ee have closed, most instances seem to be doing fine.
Have you tried alternative frontends and/or apps? The default Lemmy frontend is known to be simplistic in comparison and should be considered more of a reference implementation than anything.
Ultimately, the Threadiverse is still relatively small and will hopefully continue to improve as Lemmy, Piefed, and Mbin are developed further. All of the core features of Reddit are present, without the commercialization that has left it degraded.