[deprecative]

I cannot understand why anyone would want to deal with fediverse anything. I don't want thirty places with five to twenty people that post the same few things. I want one with hundreds or thousands or more. If I want a cozy social area I'd just as soon start a group text chat. It's just the worst of every experience.

[johnnyanmac]

>I cannot understand why anyone would want to deal with fediverse anything.

for reassurance and redundancy. People going rouge or sites being compromised by greed or other issues are inevitable. But if one server goes down (literally or figuratively), you got 29 other servers to lean on, and it makes adding a new 30th easier.

>I want one with hundreds or thousands or more

that's still possible. Meta's new "Threads" may in fact be that. But the issue of how the internet is converging towards a few select corporations is an issue not exclusive to the fediverse. Having any kind of new forum in the 2020's overcome the networking effect is a massive feat.

[mdaniel]

OT1H, I hear you and agree it is frustrating and very bad UX. OTOH, there is no rug-pull outcome because the board of anything decided to rug-pull API access to AcitvityPub endpoints

That said, I think ActivityPub has only solved the distributed posting identity problem, and has not yet solved the "lemmy.ml shuts down" problem, in that such a thing will not take my ActivityPub identity with it, but will take a lot of the high subscriber communities with it, forcing them to relocate yet again