Yes it can happen. But also the Fediverse gives us lots of room/freedom to just move to another instace, create your own, etc. Also as soon as it would become aparent that an instance as been captured, I think most Fediverse users would move away from it. We are not a good target IMO for these greedy mfers.

We should have an option to merge communities in 1 single feed or something. Or maybe a grouping function, where we could name the group, and any communities under that group would show as a single group. Then other people could like your group and also subscribe etc. But that way maybe things could get complicated. I mean for the average Joe it will already be difficult IMO to make the effort to understand the Fediverse. I mean I took my time to understand it and start using it, cause I was lazy and had Reddit. I guess there are no perfect solutions, there’s always dissadvantages. For sure 1 thing that is attactive with centralized systems is the peace of mind when it comes to understanding it, because it’s simple etc. Like starting using Crypto vs using a bank account and so on. Oh I’m rambling already.

Just subscribe to everything what’s the problem?

In case of Lemmy I used Lemmy-Easy-Deploy script. To host I used Oracle Cloud always free tier. Its risky because I’ve heard people say that since its free they can just pull the plug at any time, so you might consider to upgrade it to paid account, I heard its cheap. About requirements I have no idea. Im running my on a VM instance with Ubuntu minimal 22.04 aarch64. I pushed it to the maximum allowed for free account: 4 ARM cpu with 24Gb of Ram. I dont know anything about hosting mastodon.

I don’t care about cookies

We’ll need to take the word of Jesus to them, to save them. /s

Liftoff in my opinion is the nest so far. But for some reason after updating UI for my phone it started crashing all the time so I cant use it. Using wefwef.app now.

This will be weird when different people will start using the same username in different instances.

Could we run a kbin instance as well, sameway we do with Lemmy?

Isnt kbin also lemmy? Why the destinction?

Maybe people will start to get out more

I think so, you’d just need to not add any other instances on your instance settings. Not 100% sure. I just started my own instance a couple of days ago. And I could not connect to other communities unless I whitelisted them in settings. Also there’s a bunch of options and variables in configuration files that enable/disable activitypub.

Test @[email protected]

Testing @[email protected] x’D

Can we post on their instances too? How?

Agreed

How we know if some reasonable % of those accounts aew not just some lurkers who were just trying out the Lemmy but then did nothing with the account? Couple of years ago I dis the same, registered an account and didnt do much with it and kept using reddit.