I don’t know why this take hits me so hard. It’s so utterly comical in my brain. It’s such a bizarre idea to me that we’re going to be bleeding the users who have been here when it was literally only hexbear after a week or two of federation because, what, do they think their posting power is going to sway people over there? This is one of the least controversial site decisions to have happened over on this side of the coin. The idea of this being a phenomenon that will happen with multiple, let alone even one of our pre-federation users is so utterly incompatible with my mental model of Hexbear that I can’t fucking get over it. It’s fucking fascinating strangelove-wow

if you are one of these people planning to exodus to blahaj full-time please let me know because it’s too good of a bit to keep to yourself

  • flan [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 year ago

    WhyEssEff’s point aside, I think people are too reddit brained or VC brained or something. Not to say that people ought to make accounts at blahaj but there is no contradiction by having two accounts on two different forums. This is what people used to do in the bad old days (but really good old days) before reddit and facebook and other VC-backed sites civilized the internet with unified logins. You do not have to leave one instance to join another. PHPBB never had federation, people would sign up to them based on their interests and maybe use the same username or use a different one or whatever. No big deal.

    Anyway federation seems like a half-baked way to replicate reddit (complete with all the fuckin rules). But is it really worth replicating?