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This platform is exactly what I have been looking for (lemmy.ml)
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I've been looking for a free Reddit alternative and preferably one that was federated. I'm not really sure how federation works with this though. A lot of similar sites are just personal projects that people made as a hobby that lack a lot of important features or the interface was really ugly.

I haven't seen how to moderate communities though but the Github page says this can be done, which I consider important since I want moderation to be done by communities and users rather then admins. If there's a quarantine feature similar to Reddit that would be useful too so I don't just have to ban communities.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago

There is a brainstorm topic for federating Lemmy and on the technical end a new discussion on standardizing Groups across different apps.

Connecting protocols and apps together, improving interoperability is a hard subject. It goes very slowly, because individual developers need to be willing to spend the time and effort, and - most importantly - find others willing to do the same and collaborate. In the grassroots communities that are behind all this such organization is very hard, and amounts to "herding cats". I wrote about this yesterday in The Fediverse Saga.