cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/57576884
There’s so many ways to interact with the Fediverse. The most popular, by far, seems to be Mastodon, but Lemmy, Misskey, and Pixelfed are also relatively popular. Kbin used to be popular, but it has apparently been abandoned, and is mostly dead at this point.
I recently learned that Mbin is a thing, checked it out, and it looked really cool! Has anyone used it? How different is it from Lemmy? I hear they have better integration with Mastodon.
What Fediverse services do you actually, regularly use?
For me, it’s mostly Lemmy, though I do hop on Mastodon every now and then.
Well… Is that true, I wonder. Is that what decentralization means?
Software wise, these are open-source projects with strong community contribution. Just a few major players doesn’t imply just a few major servers, so no one company or project can ever truly dominate.
Additionally, just the threat of forking could be enough of a deterrent for more authoritarian services not to implement anti-user features. Say Lemmy sells out or something; Lemmy.ml might turn bad, but that means nothing to .world or .ee or any other server. They can just… Not update. Not implement the bad features. Lemmy can just be forked. That’s not like Twitter or Facebook.
Right?
I’m not a tech wizz or anything, but that’s my understanding of the spiel of the thing of the stuff.