In part because it reminds me a bit of the old internet, with stuff being spread around everywhere.

Being “harder”* to understand than reddit, twitter or other big companies’ services is also a good thing, because people should remember that they have a brain and they should use it.

  • “harder” because not everyone understands the fediverse right away, since usability is extremely similar

PS: ^superscript doesn’t work with phrases? at least not on preview^

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    Oh man, I never thought about that, but you’re 100% right. I’ve had this nagging feeling of nostalgia while using Lemmy for the longest time, and that’s exactly what it is.

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      It’s beautiful and I hope the rest of the internet has a revolution like this.

      Idk much about servers or anything but I hope someone finds a good way to replace YouTube next

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        That’d be PeerTube, but federated video is hard. It’s very expensive in terms of bandwidth and storage. In comparison, hosting a mostly text-based website with very little embedding of images and no embedding of video and sharing it with the world is relatively easy.