• irelephant [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      1·
      9 hours ago

      Perfect way of putting it: https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/23/semipermeable-membranes/

      Because Mastodon is free software, and because it is built on an open standard, anyone can add this feature to their Mastodon instance. You can do this yourself, or you can hire someone else to do it for you.

      What’s more, if Mastodon’s core devs decide to take away a feature you like, you and your friends can stand up your own Mastodon server that retains that feature. This is harder than using someone else’s server – but it’s way, way easier than convincing Twitter it was wrong to take away the thing you loved.

      • Blaze@piefed.zipEnglish
        714·
        4 days ago

        And nobody used that as a Reddit alternative, due to missing the federation aspect.

        What I should have said above is: you can fork Lemmy, Piefed, Mbin, use that fork on an instance and connect to the Fediverse. That’s the major difference with Reddit or Facebook.

        • Pamasich@kbin.earth
          151·
          4 days ago

          I mean, you can just add the federation aspect. It’s opensource, the code is at your fingertips to change as you please.

          • Lojcs@piefed.socialEnglish
            36·
            3 days ago

            Do you honestly not see the difference between these two? Deleting a couple lines of code or a file is just not the same as adding a feature to a codebase.