This adds a lot of legitimacy to the fediverse

No lol. Reddit has a near 20 year headstart.

Do you have a link to these tools that you're coding? I'd be happy to help you out myself.

EDIT:

Until federation is better at coordinating deletions to other Lemmy instances and Kbin (check this thread on kbin, the comments are only removed because I reported them to the instance admin), the API redacts removed comment content instead of just returning a flag that says removed, and the trolling with NSFW imagery and usernames with slurs is reduced, I’m gonna refrain from posting on Lemmy.

The potential liability for instance owners due to this is massive. Images should be stored in the instances of the community they're posted to.

What part are you having trouble understanding?

Lemmy and Kbin basically just use the same protocol for exchanging information.

Both are similar in that they interpret and present that information in a way that looks similar to Reddit which is why you can see a community on Lemmy as a magazine on kbin and vice versa. In addition Kbin also can interpret it in a way that resembles twitter.

They both started with the protocol but the way they store, serve, and present the information from the protocol is different. For example, I think Kbin stores the information that shows who upvoted what, but I don't think Lemmy does.

I've made some suggestions on my Lemmy.ml alt in the original defederation announce thread. Taking a look at the API, it should be possible to make a bot that addresses at least some of the concerns.

Does the application not keep track of IP addresses used to register or anything like that?

Until federation is better at coordinating deletions to Kbin (check this thread on kbin, the comments are only removed because I reported them to the instance admin), the API redacts removed comment content instead of just returning a flag that says removed, and the trolling with NSFW imagery is reduced, I'm gonna refrain from posting on Lemmy now.

Ahhh. Well what's better overall is gonna be fairly subjective. Php in itself was made for serving web pages with dynamic content. It came first so there's a lot of resources to learn it, more established libraries, and there are more people who know how to code with it. Ernest having experience with PHP is likely a big contributor in his choice to use it

Rust is more efficient in terms of performance because it's purpose was to replace C, a language that is "close to hardware" (not really but for the purpose of this explanation just assume it). Meaning a coder can deal with things manually that PHP normally does for them. This is a double edged sword because manually doing things allows you to find efficiency in things that something like PHP would miss, but it also gives a lot more opportunities to mess something up.

So in terms of performance I would say

Perfectly Written Rust > PHP > Badly written Rust.

The subjective part comes from how well you think the Rust is coded in Lemmy. So just choose which one you like more.

By the time TES6 comes out, Lemmy will have it's own controversy and the alternative Redmee will be the new site.

I've noticed it as well. My guess is that the average age of someone on reddit is decreasing, and combine that with the popularity of call-out culture you have what you have.

Setting up an instance would be more difficult too I assume

Even the house looks worse :(

How thoughful of them!

Perhaps. One of the threads on kbin has three comments from lemmy. Two of those Lemmy servers were on 0.17 but there was one on 0.18

It has huge potential impacts. There are kids who get excluded from social groups for having Android

These are legitimate complaints. Sure the issues raised about the platform are an artifact of it being in its infancy but you can't expect the average person to deal with those issues. The fediverse and decentralization in general as a concept is hard to grasp in a world where people are used to centralized applications and where such applications, let's face it, are simpler.

There's a lot that needs to be done before Lemmy can become truly viable. Better moderation tools are needed or more instances will defederate from one another. The UI could be more intuitive. The algorithm that lists posts on the front page needs to push more recent posts to the top. It'll get there eventually.