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Who owns the Fediverse? I mean who owns and runs the hardware that runs this system? (self.main)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by ininewcrow to c/main

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I've been talking to many people about the controversy with Reddit, why I left it and why I went onto Lemmy, Kbin and Mastadon instead. Some of my friends have commented that the control is still a problem as other platforms and it is all dependent on who owns the software, who owns the hardware, who are the admins, who are the moderators and which community or group has the most influence.

Who are these people that influence the most control on the fediverse? Are they Conservative? Are they Liberal? Are they Republican? Are they Democrat? Do they lean to the left of politics? to the right? or are they center? Are they even political? But also if they had to be would they easily or not so easily influenced?

So .. for the ELI5 version of the question ... Who owns the fediverse?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I haven’t yet, but eventually I plan to host my own and just sub to other instances from there, specifically because I trust myself more than other mods. And I think that’s a big goal of federation—if you want, you can just* run your own instance and you shouldn’t miss out on anything because of it.

*It can still be quite difficult to set up instances, depending on what software you want to use. I hope this will improve dramatically over the next year or two, so non-IT-professionals can participate in the network.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

No one.

There are people who develop the software for different instances, but they don't implement it so they don't have control over what gets done with their software.

Different admins have control over their own servers, but they don't have control over other people's servers. This has already come up as one server defederated (dropped their connection with) other servers temporarily due to spam issues.

Mods control their own communities, but under the greater control of the admins for that server.

It is kind of like email or the world wide web. No one owns either of those.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I have a personal Lemmy instance, and a personal Calckey instance. Still debating on creating a personal PixelFed instance, and maybe even a public kbin instance.

Anyone who wants to host a fediverse website owns the fediverse. It belongs to any of us and all of us.

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