Right. With federation, it's only an addition to the network, not supplanting it.

It's not about getting told what to do or having your data sold, it's about a friction-free social media experience. It depends on what the aims of the platform are and what the desires of potential users are. Personally, I'd imagine most users want something simple and easy, where they don't have to think about what and where and how to post. But if the intent of the platform is to make that harder, then that's fine, it'll just result in fewer users and less content/activity.

Lemmy is harder to start than reddit because the federated nature of it makes it not just one place. Just because you want to escape the man doesn't mean you want to have to jump through hoops and read a textbook of documentation to understand things.

I'm making a list of nsfw communities/magazines on lemmy/kbin (NSFW411). I'm currently working on lemmynsfw.com and will try other lemmy instances after, so would you mind collecting more nsfw magazines from kbin?

@negi

@Graphine

Sorting this by active users gives you the answer you're looking for better than that github page: https://lemmyverse.net/

It'd be nice if there were some way to link accounts across different instances

That'll only be the case if third party apps for kbin/lemmy are good enough and have the kinks ironed out within the next two weeks.

https://lemmyverse.net/communities

kbin.social has access to both beehaw and lemmy.world

More for other users reading this than you.

I wish there was a turnkey solution for this

@stephfinitely https://lemmynsfw.com/ seems like the place for porn on the fediverse, at least for lemmy.

@dannekrose How did it tag it? I just went to https://kbin.social/... and typed "test"

@Otome-chan@kbin.social

@random

Okay, so just do whatever and it'll work itself out. Go to "threads" if I'm in the mood to see reddit-type stuff and go to "microblog" if I'm in the mood to see twitter-type stuff.

Thanks for the good explanation.

@Otome-chan@kbin.social So is there some way to see mastodon content without subscribing to individual people first?