I found myself chatting with my dad and brought up the topic. I couldn’t come up with any actual advantages a federated platforms had. The main reason I use any federated platforms is because they’re either not as enshittified as the alternatives or run by huge dickwads. Since it mostly fits those criteria, I’m on Bluesky too, but once that goes I’ll either switch to another un-shittified platform or Mastodon.

But on its own, what advantage does a federated social media have?

  • Oberyn@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    There’s 1️⃣ unique draw to the fediverse : depending on service , you can (view|interact with) all different kinds of posts without (necessarily) needing to create separate accounts for different services (experience will vary depending on what software your instance runs though) . Examples :

    • Can view (peertube|pixelfed|lemmy|.*) posts directly from your mastodon account
    • [km]bin are threadiverse softwares that also allow you to (view|post) the twitterlike style posts you see on (mastodon|(.*)(oma|key)|.*) instances and not just reddit style threadiverse posts

    … but that’s about where tangible benefits end IMO . Fediverse only better in (technical|data privacy|potentiality) sense , may be more resistant to enshittification (tangent : wish there was better word for this , “enshittification” sounds kinda stupid IMHO) but don’t believe it’s completely immune

    Also I’ve seen enough fedimeta to know “run by huge dickwads” not (exclusive to centralised services|isolated issue) . Every other big fediverse (instance|project) feels like it’s managed by temporarily embarrassed (Elon musk|matt mullenweg)s , so like , pick your poison !