why yes i want my totally independent website to join network of dozens of shittier websites so that we can aggregate the content from my website into a shitty reddit clone and have the entire site shut down because one unpaid moderator decided to cut a single string and block half the sites from even working.
yes i dont understand how it works, do you? does anyone understand what the fuck even happened?
I dislike how much technical know-how and open source enthusiasm has been absorbed by the quest to federate everything. But it's not a bad feature, now that they've sunk all that work into it.
Unfortunately, what the internet really needs is either technically boring (forums/etc that are easy to deploy, foolproof, and require no skills to admin), or purely social (sustainably funded cooperatively owned development of critical infrastructure). I's sort of inevitable that a technically exciting solution that's at least adjacent to the social problems would win out.
But federation is here and it's probably an improvement, so we might as well take advantage of it, even if it isn't what I would've prioritized if I was crowned Dictator Of Open Source.
We took so many steps backwards when we moved from forums to Reddit.
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