Kommynct
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1 year ago Lemmy is the future for one important reason: it is federated
If you don't understand federation, you can think of it like email, you might have a hotmail, and I might have a gmail, but because email is federated, we can still communicate without any hassle, not only might you have a gmail account serverside, but you might use the outlook client, while I might use the hotmail client on my hotmail, yet it all works seamlessly, because email is a protocol for messaging.
Similarly to this, lemmy is a federated protocol for link aggregation, it works like reddit, except instead of a subreddit by necessity being hosted on lemmy's main website, you too can host your own subreddit, and your subreddit will work with other peoples lemmys
This alone means that nothing like this BS will ever happen again, let's say the default main lemmy server goes rogue and decides to do this insane api charging thing... well, all the other homeservers can just keep on working the old way, and we can abandon it, seamlessly
Link aggregators are not complex enough to warrant not being federated, and federation minimally adds to end user complexity
It's time to make a switch, and if the reddit apps start working with lemmy, lemmy will immediately gain a huge userbase, and the only thing wrong with lemmy right now is the small userbase. Please, I implore you to switch to using lemmy over reddit, your app will be useless soon if you don't anyway.
berserkwarwolf
mittensicle
ruffsl
Lemmy is essentially a federated version of Reddit, and as federated social media grows in popularity, it would be great to have some good mobile apps for the various federated versions of existing apps. Sync is my favorite client, and I fear that it'll get crippled by Reddit's upcoming API changes.
I'm aware that I'm essentially asking for a whole new app to be developed with this... but I really hope that you might take this into consideration even though the lemmy community is (currently) quite small.