I run a few groups, like @[email protected], mostly on Friendica. It’s okay, but Friendica resembles Facebook Groups more than Reddit. I also like the moderation options that Lemmy has.
Currently, I’m testing jerboa, which is an Android client for Lemmy. It’s in alpha, has a few hiccups, but it’s coming along nicely.
Personally, I hope the #RedditMigration spurs adoption of more Fediverse server software. And I hope Mastodon users continue to interact with Lemmy and Kbin.
All that said, as a mod of a Reddit community (r/Sizz) I somewhat regret giving Reddit all that content. They have nerve charging so much for API access!
Hopefully, we can build a better version of social media that focuses on protocols, not platforms.
Until the programming server that hosts all of that content goes kaput, then it’s all gone, plus all the user accounts on it. That’s the main issue I see with the distributed hosting system.
That’s what worries me about this whole thing, it’s not distributed in any way and even a decent sized lemmy server could be run on some random old pc with no hardware redundancy, no backups, no way to recover. I mean it’s not distributed as in there’s no redundancy on that node, so not only is the content on that node lost, you r account and hence all your subscriptions on other nodes is lost as well. Kind of feel like the safest way in that instance it to run your own server.
I bet it won’t take long for ways to emerge with which people can backup and migrate communities
Well of course that can happen, but on the other hand if it’s not a distributed system and that does down then all of it is gone, isn’t it?