I’m having to register to Lemmy directly now, when I’m used to posting from KBin’s instance. But now the errors is getting so bothersome that I can’t even surf around currently on it. The 50x error comes up after everytime I post somewhere, like make a thread.
The current admin is dealing with issues at the moment and can’t always be there, which is unfortunate because it sets up KBin and it’s magazines to be contaminated with bots, spam and other problems.
There is no such thing. There are a ton of smaller players besides MS and Google. Just as an example: I’ve been a migadu.com customer for years, paying $19/year for a couple of very important domains.
I was. It was so successful that there were people complaining about it, because they felt they were feeling tricked by it. The growth was there, I stopped (most of) the bots because the growth was not serving the intended purpose.
You are missing one thing. The topic-specific instances are not open for registration. I do not want it to be a home of users, I want it to be the home of communities. This is based on the idea that your identity should not be tied to the domain.
It’s not because I like basketball that I’d ever want to have an @nba.space account. It’s not because you like to self host that your identity should be reduced to a selfhosted.forum domain, etc.
This is the gist of the “Federation and Identity” post. The things that I am working on will hopefully make it clearer, but for now suffice to say that the reason that people can not create communities on their own is because they are closed for registration and this is by design.
Physical locations are limited by physics.
People don’t go to a pub to talk around specific topics and interests
Sorry, we are not going to agree on this. Fragmenting groups for the sake of it serves no purpose other than keeping some misguided notion of “ownership”.
Heh, I just joined Migadu this week. But that aside, maybe duopoly is the wrong word. But last I checked there’s two major players and then a bunch of minnows and if you tried to spin up a self hosted email today, your emails would likely get bounced.
They go hand in hand. But let’s see how that changes with the third-party login work the Lemmy developers are working on.
Indeed, but I liked self hosting enough to make an account on libretechni.ca even if I don’t use the account for much.
Never been to a pub? 😂
Different pubs have different customers and atmospheres, despite both selling beer.
Third-party login is not going to change the fact that Lemmy servers (like every other server on Activity pub nowadays) connect the user identity to the server domain. It will maybe save people from creating yet another password, but that is about it.
Have you been to any pub where the conversation goes around one specific topic and there are moderators to make sure the conversation stays within its guidelines? I surely haven’t.