You don't have to use a legitimate email. It's just helpful if you lose your account and need some point of contact.
Sorry, never made a Reddit account and never will.
Just something to know though: You can sign up with a completely fake email if you want to, but it will mean you won't be able to be contacted if you do so.
It's not even just about the growth of one website, but the growth of a shared community of independent servers interacting with each other as a whole. It's a system designed so that even if my instance fails, the content will be available on other servers of other people with similar or even different ideals.
I know you hear "multiple servers" and you still think of a centralized system like Reddit, but no one "owns" this system I'm talking about. It's all small independent servers that use a shared protocol to share messages with one another and store them.
"Fediverse" as in federated web servers operating under a shared protocol for communicating with one another.
Federated as in "multiple groups formed into a unit" instead of one group that controls everything.
I PROMISE you not everything with "fed" in it is an FBI honeypot.
I've lurked around KIA and KIA2 for years. I've never made an account because I don't trust reddit, and I never bothered with the .win communities because I felt like neither was really active or took full advantage of their freedoms.
Believe what you want. All I really wish is for more people to stop falling for centralized grifter shitholes thinking the solution to the problem is just another Reddit or another Twitter or another Youtube.
There’s an open source streaming site on GitHub called Guac.live that you could check out.
Once again, PLEASE support federated social media alternatives like Pleroma and Lenny.
I ain't trying to be vitriolic. Not sure where you're getting that idea from. Though to be fair I am a bit frustrated because it's feels like the KiA community is slowly dying out.
What do you mean? I'm just trying to get you guys to look into ActivityPub and fediverse because it's basically better than any centralized "alt-tech" platforms by design. What will you do when .win gets shut down or the owner goes kooky and nukes everything? Things won't get easier so it's better to take advantage of the tools we have.
Federated sites that use the ActivityPub protocol are very different by design compared to any small centralized alternative. It works similar to email servers but with social media. Everyone can make their own instance and users on different instances can interact with other instances, as well as users from other instances. Ideology can't "take it over" because it is completely decentralized by design.
DomitiusOfMassilia or ClockworkFool could set up their own Lenny instance right now and it would be easy to use and 100x better than .win or Ruqqus or any of that bullshit for the simple fact that it's federated.
Encouraging federation and for people to create their own instances isn’t just “hoping the problem will go away on its own” If this theoretical “big instance” scenario happens then people will simply move to other instances, and they still federate with each other so they’ll have just as much reach as the big one. Also I’d very much like you to elaborate of why exactly things get “compromised”
it basically has monopoly power in the same way that twitter actually does.
The whole point of federated sites is it’s literally impossible to have a monopoly on power. If you’re banned from 1 instance of a million people, there’s still thousands of instances with thousands of people each, and those instances can form a seamless mesh network using relays.
“Fediverse” is not a singular service, it refers to all types of federated services and the very concept of such.
But in terms of communications the real future is mesh networks
That's basically what federated services are. If one instance goes down, the content is still hosted on thousands of other instances that chose to relay it or interacted with it in some way. But as for using your own internet infrastructure, that's going to be a long ways away unless you have access to your own satellite or cell towers. For what it's worth there's federated services that can run on Tor, I2P, or even gopher!
But too many people starting up new alternative sites try to start from a principled position against advertising.
If that's the case you can run your own instance of something with advertising added to it. Even if someone doesn't like it they can still see the same posts and follow the same users from a different instance.
They are functionally identical to places like Twitter and Reddit in terms of the quality of the people running it.
You can see that many "branches" have their content suspended from interacting with Mastodon for things like harassment and hate speech. This is why it is not reliable. If the people moderating things are compromised then anywhere good just gets quarantined away, same as Reddit.
I think there's some confusion here. "Mastodon" isn't just some other social media alternative that requires you to use their infrastructure. It's self contained software you run on your own server as an "instance", and no one on the "official" mastodon instances has control over any of it. The code of conduct you've posted only applies to a couple instances out of thousands, and anyone can host their own instance with their own rules and team.
Information is shared not just to clients but between instances when interactions happen between them, or when an instance chooses to directly relay another. If a post is deleted on one instance, it can still be mirrored and stored on multiple other instances. You can even make a single user instance just so you have your own personal database of public posts.
(Also regardless of what the Mastodon team thinks, Pleroma is the same thing but lightweight and not made by SJWs. I recommend you look at instances like https://shitposter.club/ and https://freespeechextremist.com/ to see examples of what the Fediverse could be.)
Well for starters it's a microblog instead of a link aggregator so you'll have to decide for yourself.