Reddit

I started with SlashDot too, then Kuro5hin which was a pretty unique mix of tech and arts/culture. From there I am not sure how I ended up on Reddit, but I do know it was through Imgur because the odd comment would mention it. I didn’t do much with Fark outside of enjoying the photoshop contests, and never used Tumblr or Digg (in fact I always thought the Digg interface was kind of goofy).

I’m curious to see how lemmy will pan out. I don’t know if the Reddit board will backtrack and try to fix this, or if they are just looking for a quick cash out and then let the chips fall where they may.

I like the idea of federation but so far both mastodon and lemmy have the same basic issue that jabber/xmpp have: there needs to be an easier way to distribute traffic through a single domain as well as a way to “move” an account to another server without dropping old links/addresses. In the case of lemmy specifically, there should be a way to merge/replicate communities so that (for example) [email protected] and [email protected] and [email protected] are either identical communities or somehow made clear to the average person that they’re distinct and not the same community.

The “one domain” / load/user distributor needs investment to keep running, which is why I think none of these federated services gets too far off the ground.