I’ve been talking to many people about the controversy with Reddit, why I left it and why I went onto Lemmy, Kbin and Mastadon instead. Some of my friends have commented that the control is still a problem as other platforms and it is all dependent on who owns the software, who owns the hardware, who are the admins, who are the moderators and which community or group has the most influence.
Who are these people that influence the most control on the fediverse? Are they Conservative? Are they Liberal? Are they Republican? Are they Democrat? Do they lean to the left of politics? to the right? or are they center? Are they even political? But also if they had to be would they easily or not so easily influenced?
So … for the ELI5 version of the question … Who owns the fediverse?
So from my understanding at least for kbin is that the software is open source and for kbin.social, ernest is paying for the server to run this instance and he is planning to get someone to help with the server while he works on the administration side. There are other instances run by other people and all the magazines seem to be backed up in one way or another in each instance so that if this instance dies, there is some parity? Not 100% sure on this last part so correct me if im wrong…
I looked around and found a donation page for Ernest and kbin.social at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/kbin
Thanks for the link! Coffee and kudos passed along.
Yah i saw that and will be donating too. Servers arent cheap unfortunately and it would suck if he had to pay for it all out of pocket…
And daily living. Can you imagine the time sink?
Yep. I know it’s not literal coffee but I love thinking of Ernest as this incredibly wired guy who is mainlining coffee from us as he works on kbin.
Kids used to live on Monster, Mountain Dew and coffee.
