In the wake of major API changes and the death of beloved 3rd party apps, scores of Reddit users have flocked to Lemmy, a similar online forum and news aggregating platform with one key difference: It's decentralized, and can never be owned by a single company or person. But this has nothing to do with blockchain or crypto.
Lemmy is part of the Fediverse, where self-hosted instances can interact with each other using common protocols. This is how other decentralized platforms like Mastodon work. Lemmy has been around since 2019, but as Reddit controversies continue, many instances of Lemmy have seen exponential growth in recent weeks.
Alli and Lindsey chat with Ruud Schilders, who hosts and operates what has become the largest Lemmy instance: lemmy.world. Ruud shares what makes federated social media so exciting, the challenges of content moderation, and the current blockers to mainstream adoption.
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157 Reddit Gifts (Internet Secret Santa)
[Encore Episode] 113 ClausNet: The Social Network for Santas (December 22, 2019)
156 4chan: The Birthplace of All Memes
[Encore Episode] 94 Sweepers (Originally Published July 2019)
155 Modern Families Are Easier to Make Thanks to the Internet
154 Financial Domination (Allie Eve Knox Returns!)
153 OnlyFans Culture (with Allie Eve Knox)
152 Political Humiliation with Empress Delfina
151 Why Tech Companies Won't Let You Fix Your Own Stuff (Steve Porter, TronicsFix)
150 Virtual Funeral Services (Gathering Us)
149 QAnon Casualties: How to Save a Loved One From Conspiracy Cults
[Encore Episode] 55 How Composer Kevin MacLeod Makes a Living Giving All His Music Away For Free (Originally Published October 22, 2018)
148 Unnecessary Inventions
147 One In an ARMY (BTS / K-Pop Fandom Charity)
146 Solo Female Traveler Network
145 Get a Pen Pal
144 What Makes a Great Online Community?
[Encore Episode] 46 The Women Editing Thousands of Wikipedia Articles in a Quest for Gender Parity (Originally Published Aug 20, 2018)
143 The space cemetery in 'EVE Online'
142 How Does Wikipedia Actually Work?
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