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On the contrary, a bunch of scattered communities create one large user base. The people you see in this thread all come from a bunch of different websites and services. You'll see users from startrek.website discussing woodworking in communities hosted by lemmy.ca.

All subreddits are run by Reddit; if Reddit decides to overrun it with ads, require you to use their app, make content impossible to enjoy, or incorporate some awful AI bullshit, nobody can really do anything about it.

Over here, you are in charge of your own user experience. You're reading this content from dbzer0; I'm using an entirely different application called kbin. We have completely different user experiences, and some users might be banned on my server but not on yours (or vice versa).

Others might get different user experiences through apps or front-ends such as Old Lemmy or more experimental stuff. It's basically going to be a lot more difficult to enshittify as everybody is chosing their own experience.

As for the communities, they are indeed at the mercy of whoever runs a particular server. If the lemmy.world admins go a bit crazy, users might for example respond by jumping ship to the !fediverse community on a different server.

There's a flip side to everything of course:

It is a little more inconvenient if your server dies, but other servers survive.

Assuming the server is going to die, it's arguably more convenient on the Fediverse as most communities won't die with it. If Reddit disappears the entire site will be gone; if lemmy.world dies the Threadiverse will continue on without too much trouble.

It is a little more inconvenient if your server blocks other servers and you don’t agree with the reasons why.

That's true, but the added convenience is that you can join a server where you agree with moderating decisions. Content moderation is not one size fits all; at least on the Fediverse it's theoretically possible for everyone to end up on a server they're happy with.

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There's nothing wrong with your title per se, it just takes a second to realise what should be read as words and what's names. But people are intelligent, they'll manage. :)

Oops, you're perfectly clear - I'm just tired and misread. Yes, Kbin is still federated with Threads indeed. :)

Maybe you have blocked Threads yourself? I'm not sure if Kbin even supports that (it's possible on Mastodon and Pixelfed), but I can see Mosseri's account just fine from my end!

It's hard to say how many active users are on Threads, but of 160 million registered users there's probably somewhere between 20 and 50 million (somewhat) active ones. That's more people than are signed up to Bluesky, as far as I can gather.

A lot of Twitter addicts are going to Bluesky, whereas Threads feeds off the huge user base of Instagram. Bluesky just looks more relevant seen from the Fediverse because it attracts a bunch of dorks.

You could try to follow a user from threads, such as @mosseri. I guess that won't be possible from instances where threads is defederated.

Yeah, the adds take up some time, but I still find the overall experience less annoying than I did with Duolingo last time I used it. The push towards human interaction, which Duolingo has actively pushed away from, is also welcome.

It depends. In terms of accuracy, I've seen new streets missing in OSM that are updated in Google Maps, but also the other way around.

If you want to find korean restaurants or cheap hairdressers, Google Maps unfortunately still has an edge over OSM. If you want to find hiking trails, it's the other way around.

OSM is missing things like satellite images and Street View, which is undeniably useful sometimes.

I wouldn't say it's worse, but it's better only for certain use cases, and worse for others. :)

Kagi supports bangs (similar to DuckDuckGo), so searching for "!osm 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW" will take you straight to the White House.

The official web site of Open Street Maps is not exactly Google Maps in terms of usability, but it's a functional map. :)

Unfortunately, it often means going straight to maps.google.com or the Google Maps app - it's the main Google service I still haven't gotten rid off in my life. If I need something a bit more simple I'll check Open Street Maps, either through a desktop app or Organic Maps on my phone. If I need hiking trails Organic Maps is clearly superior to Google Maps, so then there's no real question.