So Raddle, as far as I know, is not federated. Lemmy is going to be federated. On a technical level alone, just about any proper anarchist should be super stoked about the Lemmy project, even if the main dev instance is a bit controlling of their anarchist users and generally isn't a super healthy space for anarchists to hang out. The prospect of decentralizing social media is anarchist as fuck and it provides real protections for anarchists against that one clique that keeps trying to expunge anarchists from every lefty space - moderators and admins no longer hold a monopoly on access to an entire community.
But for Raddle in particular, Ziq has a particular history with deliberately stirring shit with alts there to make things interesting, which has lead other anarchist spaces to kind of distance themselves from it. You'll still see posts linked there sometimes because ATM raddle is a place where you can post edgier stuff without a social media company giving you shit for it, but like you can get a lot of shit for just identifying as an ancom on Raddle which makes it not a particularly safe place to post if you don't know whose ass to be kissing. It's just fucking abusive.
That said, this is Chapo. We're inheriting a significantly larger userbase, while Raddle was only ever known by a few niche subs and was only ever going to be an anarchist-only space. Even though we're not federated yet, we have enough activity to be entertaining and so hold our numbers. It's the same reason we're smaller than whatever that donald site is, we were always a smaller sub. The hope with federation is that we can have more niche communities without them dying off because of the network effect.
AS AN ANARCHIST
So Raddle, as far as I know, is not federated. Lemmy is going to be federated. On a technical level alone, just about any proper anarchist should be super stoked about the Lemmy project, even if the main dev instance is a bit controlling of their anarchist users and generally isn't a super healthy space for anarchists to hang out. The prospect of decentralizing social media is anarchist as fuck and it provides real protections for anarchists against that one clique that keeps trying to expunge anarchists from every lefty space - moderators and admins no longer hold a monopoly on access to an entire community.
But for Raddle in particular, Ziq has a particular history with deliberately stirring shit with alts there to make things interesting, which has lead other anarchist spaces to kind of distance themselves from it. You'll still see posts linked there sometimes because ATM raddle is a place where you can post edgier stuff without a social media company giving you shit for it, but like you can get a lot of shit for just identifying as an ancom on Raddle which makes it not a particularly safe place to post if you don't know whose ass to be kissing. It's just fucking abusive.
That said, this is Chapo. We're inheriting a significantly larger userbase, while Raddle was only ever known by a few niche subs and was only ever going to be an anarchist-only space. Even though we're not federated yet, we have enough activity to be entertaining and so hold our numbers. It's the same reason we're smaller than whatever that donald site is, we were always a smaller sub. The hope with federation is that we can have more niche communities without them dying off because of the network effect.