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What a misunderstanding of the nature of the Fediverse and how federation works. The point of federation is more to a connected social network while distributing infrastructure across volunteers.

I will have to be pedantic and note that r/Anarchism on Reddit does elect moderators, but not based on the criteria you suggest. In fact, it’s quite problematic as the skills of linking cool things/writing good posts and managing people like you would as a moderator are quite different skills! While I’ve never ran a Lemmy community or a subreddit, I did run a Discord server once as well as a traditional forum, and the social aspect was far harder than the technical aspect, and I did not know Discord as a platform at all when I did that. The community was a trainwreck as a result.

That being said, a democratically-run instance isn’t a bad idea. I agree with givesomefucks on lemmy.world in that the best way to go about this is to have an instance with that kind of rule set. In fact, there are Mastodon instances that are cooperatives like social.coop and cosocial.ca that could be looked at for inspiration for a Lemmy cooperative, which is what it sounds like you’re looking for to some extent. I think in practice it’d probably look like a very scaled down version of Usenet’s Big 8 Board.

I’ve had that happen to me on archive.is 🙃

I don’t particularly agree with this.

Having different interfaces does mean multiple accounts across services is better, but I don’t see “one account for everything” as something important for the Fediverse per se.

In fact, I really like that they’re interoperable at all. I can post something on my PieFed account then boost it on my Mastodon account. I can upvote a post I think is cool, and if I think it’s really cool, I can boost it directly on Mastodon.

I love being able to comment on PeerTube videos or Lemmy threads with my Mastodon account, or to reply to my friends on my PieFed account.

PieFed also lets you follow Mastodon accounts, so I can comment on the posts of people I follow on PieFed if I want to.

Xeovo appears to use WireGuard and OpenVPN. They don’t even seem to have their own client.

KeePass is made with Windows in mind, so it might not have come across OP’s radar if they don’t use Windows.

I do love Posteo, but they explicitly do not support custom domains, as said in their FAQ. However, it is very strongly anti-AI, and has strong ethics that I think anyone in your situation would agree with.

For VPNs, I love AirVPN a lot, though I hear it can be rather slow. For me, I personally use it for downloading Linux ISOs as well as getting past wonky internet connections and it works really well for those use cases. From what I could see, Xeovo also seems to be torrent-friendly as well.

I’ve recommended Aegis to close family and have used KeePass (as well as XC and ChiPass, which is an AI-free fork of XC) in both a personal and professional capacity. I will have a look at AliasVault though, as I would like to move away from BitWarden myself.

It does.

A quick look at the sidebar and hovering over, one of the moderators of this community appears to be a lemmy.world admin if that’s what you mean.

Considering how big lemmy.world is, I’d guess it’s more a bit of overlap than it being the same people.

For VPN I do like AirVPN a lot.

I do currently use Bitwarden for my 2FA as well as my passwords, though I should look into Ente Auth.

I’ll be honest, I forget that NodeBB has become federated. Despite having run into an actual incompatibility problem between Piefed and NodeBB. 😅

I personally use Lemmy/Piefed/Mbin/etc. for social news rather than bolted on forum-like features. That’s where I think this software shines.

If you want a decentralized forum, I’d seriously recommend you look at Usenet and NNTP. Then again, I promote the usage of network protocols for what they are good at over forcing everything through the web. 😂

Definitely a very good post.

It reminds me of Chimera Linux’s stance on systemd, which I found to be the best explanation on systemd before these blog posts.

Not my instance (I’m posting from PieFed lol), but I noticed that lemmy.blahaj.zone has five UIs, including mlmym, set up.

I can second AirVPN. I’ve never had an issue with it, at least one that wasn’t ultimately user error.

Read my post. I said “ruin a good thing” which very much is referring to that.

Vibe-coders (actually probably will steal “slop kiddies”) ruin a good thing yet again.

I turn to retrocomputing to get away from it all because I would expect people in that world to generally agree this is horrible and there’s somehow vibe-coding there too. I’m so tired of this.