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Lemmy is libre software. Don't want to get abused? Keep Lemmy libre. (self.lemmyworld)

submitted 1 year ago by autonomoususer to c/lemmyworld

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Lemmy is software anyone can develop and everyone controls, libre software, which makes it very hard for Lemmy to abuse us. To keep it this way, share the ideas of software freedom.

Always check its software license: always check it is libre software (video guide here).
Also avoid service as a software substitute.
Libre software plus decentralisation [federation or peer-to-peer] is ideal.
Remember, 'open source' misses the point.

If we focus on warning against individual apps, we must repeat our time and effort everytime new malware appears. So, target a common property: its software license.

With proprietary software, we are not the user, we are the used.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Although Lemmy is free and open source, the main power is the federation. The most valuable thing that Lemmy has, are its users and the content (this is the same for Reddit). And because of the federation every instance in the Lemmy network has these assets.

Let's say one instance would get massive, and would stop federating and start charging for API access. If that happened, we would be in the same situation as now with Reddit. Yea, it would e a lot easier to set up your own instance, but you would still need to convince all these people to give up that main instance. So I'm really happy that federation basically would mean that all other instances could cut that massive instance out and still have all the data.

[–] exscape 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What would happen to the communities on that instance, though? If they choose to block/defederate then the other instances would no longer be able to access them (or "have all the data"), right?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

From what I understood from the Beehaw situation, other instances would have a snapshot of those post, but they would no longer receive any new reactions or votes, not even from other instances that they are still federated with (the host instance is the instance that should provide all other instances with new comments and votes). People would still be able to add comments, but those would not be shared with other instances.

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