I just joined Lemmy and so far I’m enjoying it. It’s a little bit sparse in terms of content and users, but I think it has a really cool structure, and it feels more human than certain other social media sites.
I’m curious to know what users think about who is welcome here. Do you think it should be gates open, everyone including your aunt should join, or is it more exclusive to people interested in the fediverse as a starting point? Or something else?
Not trying to stir up shit, just genuinely curious about what the vibe is and where the community thinks it is or should be going.
Same people as email.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse
This is the future of social media and you are a part of it. Currently there are only a few people but later on everyone will catch up and this will have most of the population on it.
But because of the federal nature it will be cluttered overwhelming or difficult to manage like other centralised social media.
The biggest advantage is neither the corporate nor the governments or dictatorships can censor content here. Only the community can decide what’s best for them.
The future is federated, decentralised and anonymised and open to everyone.
Eventually people are gonna get tired of the toxicity of mainstream social media.
Eventually all of the internet is going to be decentralised and free from control again as it was meant to be.
Well, it’s federated and runs on free (as in freedom) software. So the whole point is it’s theoretically for anyone and everyone. Anyone with a computer and internet connection can host their own instance, or join another instance that aligns with their interests and politics, and connect with any other instance that’s federated with them/doesn’t have them blocked. And similarly if there’s people you find insufferable you can block them as individuals, and if they break the rules of your instance they can be banned from your instance. Or an instance can block another entire instance if they find the other community particularly vile.
Not sure about the positioning of “aunts” as people who wouldn’t be interested in the fediverse though. Plenty of people are aunts, I’m sure there’s plenty of aunts on the fediverse too.
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What do you want it to be? Read up on moderation and how that’s handled, host your own instance, contribute to the fediverse. Self hosted social media comes with it’s own challenges however you can get as much out of this as you put in.
I would point you two places as far as research on self hosting, db0 and eviltoast.org.
Db0 has a great AI moderation tool, eviltoast was recently plagued by a troll bot that kept creating new accounts and spamming threads with some pretty annoying posts.
Wanted to just say welcome! I mentioned in another comment, maybe not Lemmy, it’s a bit technical right now, but Mastodon/PixelFed are pretty solid and easy to join right now, they may like the Twitter/Insta feel more anyway if they aren’t used to Reddit.
Thanks for being here though! and if you’re worried about stirring up shit then I think you can set those worries aside, you’re fine here :)
