So other instances outside the instance your user exist on, has access to this? Which means everyone, as anyone can create an instance?

What is an instance? Is everything not on one server? If not, then how is it all aggregated?

Wow. This dude was deleted by God!

And how exactly do they gatekeep and what do they gatekeep?

Do you have links to proof?

Hi fellow Apollonian, are you using your mobile browser or is there an app?

I kind of would hope Apollo could be retrofitted to work with lemmy

It could be different since it’s decentralized

Apollo instantly crashes when I open it. Is there any way to get the Apollo json file export?

Wefwef supports importing it so you get subs of similar names

It also feels faster when loading, though slower when you enter a post or save a comment.

Wheres the Dark mode at?

Its more a rule than an exception that when the next big thing has been around for a while, it becomes super corporate and it dies.

Could an instance be hosted inside an app? In a container locally on your own machine? Maybe the two could be synced? One instance across all your devices synced?

That would be the safest?

So is there a way to search across instances?

Seriously, this will distance google from usefulness even further. Chatbots already at the jugular of google right now.

Can the big AI companies crawl and harvest lemmy and fediverse?

But you could join whatever server you want, and you'd have access and be able to communicate with any instance?

So what has to remain is certainty that your user credentials won't be stolen and that the uptime is good.

As I wrote in another post, maybe the better alternative is to encapsulate your own instance and sync across your devices. Encapsulate it in a device agnostic container.

Your user would be your own. It would always be up?

Maybe this would also help alleviate the traffic, since these servers (for now without commercialization) are running off of people's good will.

Reading some of the comments here and also pondering the last half day - how much does it require to host an instance yourself?

Doing that: You are almost certain not to have your user data at risk? The server would always be up.

Could an instance not be hosted across devices? Encapsulated by a container that is synced to your other devices?

I mean, on Reddit there’s just be subreddits which would be equivalent of communities. I just don’t get what instances are for then.

Can you subscribe to communities across instances with the same user?

To the last bit you mention with anyone being able to make a community, then I guess that’s where mods would come in handy.

Wow... I mean, I feel like creating 15 users across many instances and just using them at random. I dont want that kind of insight available. Though I probably already gave all that on Reddit. You're welcome AI!!

They probably have a free choice to review who can join, which blocks the federated part that allows a federated user to log in?

This! Reuse as much as possible.

But you could join whatever server you want, and you'd have access and be able to communicate with any instance?

So what has to remain is certainty that your user credentials won't be stolen and that the uptime is good.

As I wrote in another post, maybe the better alternative is to encapsulate your own instance and sync across your devices. Encapsulate it in a device agnostic container.

Your user would be your own. It would always be up?

Maybe this would also help alleviate the traffic, since these servers (for now without commercialization) are running off of people's good will.