Presumably for the same reason you're on a federated forum-like platform: to have your posts syndicated to other websites for easier discovery, and to comment on posts from other websites without needing abother account?
Kichae
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Lemmy is a failure at being like centralized social media, just like I'm a failure at being an athlete. It's no more built to do that than I am.
I get that many folks around here don't care for it, but Beehaw is a better model for this space. If people started treating the fedeverse as a Local+ framework, and treated the websites as the fundamental building blocks af the fediverse, and not just weird dangling tails on the ends of things, the experience would be significantly better. But none y'all want to do that, because that means leaving the mental model of centralization at the door.
Lemmy is not a forum, though, any more than Mastodon is. It's a totally different, if relates, form factor and provises a radically different user experience.
Why is it a silly thing to do? A non-federating lemmy instance is just another content aggregator site like Reddit.
In many ways, it's a better experience than federated Lemmy. It's just harder to recruit members.
They're not.
Who is stopping them now? Because if you say "the police", you're going to have to cite some sources. They not only don't stop anyone from being raped, they routinely side with the rapists, or even employ them directly.
Having the legal right and feeling in any way empowered to exercise that right are wildly different things.
They make me continually glad for switching to a credit union.
Wait, are people unaware that forums, Reddit, and Lemmy are also social media?
Social networking sites are a type of social media. Discussion groups are another.
Is the 4 column layout not standard on Mastodon?
It's a poor design if what you want to do is emulate a centralized social media service.
But maybe we should stop trying to do that.
There's no reason you couldn't do this with a network of Lemmy, mbin, NodeBB, or even Friendica wrbsites