This is cool. /r/blind which is heavily affected by #Reddit 's bullshit has created their own instance instead of using a existing instance and creating a community there.
@padraig@main Fascinating that replies on Mastodon appear on the Lemmy instance ... if someone using rblind.com can be bothered, could you reply to me to see if that comes through to Mastodon, thanks?
@JonnyT@padraig@main This is the power of Federation! You can also follow their community like a group on your platform of choice! I gave the community a follow today and mostly just lerk.
After everything that’s happened, we wanted more control over our own api and interface. What if we just set up a community somewhere else and then they added an inaccessible captcha? This way we can run our instance to suit ourselves, but still interact with communities in other instances.
Open protocols mean that while this is going to be a painful transition over the next couple months, we have the potential to end up better off than we were before. While the phrase "no pain no gain" is generally toxic, in this case it seems to be somewhat true.
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