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Re:Google is the only search engine that works on Reddit now... by Suppafly on Wednesday July 24, 2024 @12:27PM (#41058723)
>The strange thing to me is how everybody keeps trying to make distributed Twitter happen when distributed Reddit is the low hanging fruit for federated social media.

Honestly, it's strange to me how hard people are trying to make distributed anything happen. Federation mostly solves a problem that real people don't have or care about.

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Re:Google is the only search engine that works on Reddit now... by Yawrehto on Wednesday July 24, 2024 @02:30PM (#41060196)
>Honestly, it's strange to me how hard people are trying to make distributed anything happen.

IMO, something federation is very good at is solving one slow-moving problem - enshittification of social platforms. It's not immune, of course, but an Elon Musk-style takeover is much harder with Mastodon than Twitter, and it would be hard to run it into the ground in other ways because the platforms are owned by different people and groups.

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