1. Use distributed, federated services like Lemmy, mastodon etc.
  2. Support the hosts with our own funds.
  3. Moderate our own communities.

The second point is the most important. Reddit happened because they are a corporate entity seeking profit. Let’s own our social media platforms by actively contributing funds to them.

  • peopleproblems
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    31 year ago

    Ok, so, admittedly, I haven’t taken much time to read up on what I can do with Lemmy.

    However, by the sound of it, I can set up an instance on whatever server I desire. From that instance I can moderate the content accordingly to how I want, including automation. Users can sign up on my Lemmy instance, or I can participate in other discussions from Lemmy users on other instances.

    This also means I could make an app for my specific lemmy server, and tweak it as to how I see it. Or shit, I could keep myself as the only user ok that lemmy instance if I really wanted.

    I take it all the stuff for lemme is right there on Github, so When the little one has down time I’ll start digging in