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I've been exploring the fediverse and subbing and posting all over the damn place. Realizing lemmy can federate with kbin blew my mind. Not to mention the possibility of turning my old laptop into a personal server to host my own instance. Is this what it felt like to discover how the internet worked in the 90s?

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[โ€“] Senseibu@feddit.uk 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The best part about federated services, like Lemmy, Kbin, Mastodon etc, is that they are free and open source software. The amount of development that is going to do into these project from people all over the world will add features and tools that will surpass reddit's.

We have the basic software down today but it will become so much more.

[โ€“] andobando@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

This is such a good point. Reddit nor any of the other giants can surpass the ability of open source. If this works out it will prove a very fundamental shift in tech.

[โ€“] cmason1985@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

I agree, it's very early days, but I look at this the same way I see the Raspberry Pi organization developing their single board computer (SBC) back in 2011-2012. Look where that is today in terms of development/support.