I’ve been talking to many people about the controversy with Reddit, why I left it and why I went onto Lemmy, Kbin and Mastadon instead. Some of my friends have commented that the control is still a problem as other platforms and it is all dependent on who owns the software, who owns the hardware, who are the admins, who are the moderators and which community or group has the most influence.
Who are these people that influence the most control on the fediverse? Are they Conservative? Are they Liberal? Are they Republican? Are they Democrat? Do they lean to the left of politics? to the right? or are they center? Are they even political? But also if they had to be would they easily or not so easily influenced?
So … for the ELI5 version of the question … Who owns the fediverse?
There’s currently no straightforward way to migrate your data, about all I’ve seen is a lemmy_migrate script that can sync your communities between accounts.
That said, if you’re feeling limited by the local communities just click the button to switch from local to all and the entire lemmyverse is at your fingertips from your local instance. I’ve subscribed to communities from ca, ml, dbzer0, kbin, sh.itjust.works and regularly peruse all – your home instance only becomes an issue if your admins defederated an instance you enjoyed. (See: beehaw)
Greetings from lemmy.world!