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Mod of r/Transgender_Surgeries has posted an edit to their post addressing Lemmy with questions and things to consider (www.reddit.com)

submitted 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) by bayesianbandit@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Cross posting this here for visibility as it's easy to not see the edit. They are adding thoughts and resources to the post as they evolve so maybe keep an eye out for future edits.

I think the questions they have are very reasonable & they have welcomed cis people to discuss on the post (but not elsewhere on the subreddit)

I'm new to Lemmy and doing what I can. Long time member of the subreddit. Maybe some of you all are better than me at discussing these topics with them?

Thank you all for your help so far 🫶

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[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 6 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (2 children)

What's to stop any other site from going down? That's a concern with literally every part of the internet. Either host a decentralized node or accept your fate, what's even the argument there

I'm curious about the sharing of user data across instances, that could be a very valid reason for folks to be reluctant. But afaik it's just surface-level user data that's self-provided, same as anything else with a login.

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah for the second point you bring up, I’m not sure how that would be substantially different than the stuff that Reddit collects. They do a ton of fingerprinting to find ban evaders to my knowledge. All that info is just one subpoena away. At least there are fediverse instances outside US jurisdiction.

[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 5 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Exactly.

The biggest disadvantage to lemmy is just the size of the community. Reddit is established. People are there.

Pretty much every criticism people have of lemmy is worse under reddit.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Yep, my effective downtime is zero because when lemmy.ca goes down I use one of my two alts to browse the rest of the fediverse, and if one of the popular ones happens to go down then I just browse locally more. It only sucked a bit when a big piece of Canadian news happened (PM Trudeau resigning) and there was an unscheduled outage due to shitty OVH hardware and support. Thankfully our admins migrated off that server.

In contrast, when I remember Reddit was 500-ing all you could do is sit, refresh and wait.