There might be some kind of trust system that could work. I have no idea of course but I’m envisioning something like Stack Overflow’s system and a bit of community correction and authority à la Wikipedia.
Why can’t the government just build it as a public utility?
Indeed. People almost invariably conflate capitalism with free markets, whereas those relatively independent properties.
That’s actually not true, right? https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/global-co2-emissions-from-transport-by-sub-sector-in-the-net-zero-scenario-2000-2030
In 2019 there are 6.08 Gt from road vehicles compared to the 0.87 Gt from shipping. That’s just overwhelming.
I don’t doubt there’s a great amount of user growth, but it appears that many of those are account creation spam on instances with 1 active monthly user though.
Edit to add a comment I made on another post Basically there might be about 200k real users right now including lurkers, growing at a rate of basically 13.5k per day.
I think there’s a good mechanism to keep that from happening given that you can always just spin up your own instance or join a different one and still be federated with every other instance of interest.
That current state of affairs (people having content on a multitude of instances) should keep that from happening, since a bad actor would need to capture sufficient content as to have the only instance worth visiting.
I can’t foresee myself years from now having a problem making a new account on some-new-lemmy.place
in under 3 minutes and continuing on my merry way.
Or at least that’s how it seems to me.
The hurdle to that is much greater here since there’s a common protocol adopted by multiple open source projects (of which Lemmy) which allows interoperability. If a profit-driven group would try to capture it, people could move instances/use a fork/use a different but similar activitypub project like kbin, etc.
At least I think that’s correct? It seems to me there are multiple lines of defense which each have a good amount of redundancy.
Huh! Lemme test that out again then!
It works just the same as the web site! You can search or browse/scroll through local communities, subbed ones, or “all” (from all federated instances that are subbed to by anyone on your instance if I understand correctly).
My experience has been good with Jerboa :O I do remember some part of the UI feeling a bit janky, though… I find it mostly pretty good. Do wish I could slide right to go back instead of reaching for the top left or the bottom navigation bar with my terrible thumb control.
Watch out for deleted posts reappearing! I read about that last night, and this morning a 4 year old comment reappeared (a week after I’d deleted everything).
Apparently it might have something to do with subreddits being locked when you run a deletion tool, then unlocking afterwards.
Google en passant