I wonder about the odds that Google would buy reddit. Not saying it’s a good thing, but it could be a strategic play for them.

That’s more or less what I’m thinning, though I’m not there yet. Still need to understand what persists on my server etc. Ideally I just want a portal/gateway to centralize connections to the outside world. This would let me control my own credentials and have a single login (notwithstanding additional protocols)

I’m not interested in persisting much data.

I worry it’ll become a headache though. Already I’m finding compatibility issues in the fediverse - when I tried Jerboa, my first toe in the water here I realized it didn’t work with lemmy.world because of minimum version level. Obviously it’ll iron itself out in time, but it does highlight that running an instance is not absolutely set-and-forget.

Thanks for responding!

You know, I was also comtemplating creating an instance (private) for just myself to centralize a single account and then picking and choosing from all over while maintaining my own ‘home’ that only I control.

I need to research it a bit further though. The idea has some appeal.

Still trying to get head around kbin vs lemmy vs Mastodon and the interoperability therein. It’s starting to click. (Intellectually I get it, but from a workflow perspective it’s taking time, as there are too many ways to go about it. The tryanny of choice, etc…)

So. Likely. Yes.

It comes down to the UX. I use BaconReader for reddit, and since that’s going away I might as well find something else. I don’t think kbin/lemmy/Mastodon are there yet as far as UI is concerned, but it’ll come. (FWIW the twitter app is, for me, not half bad - it’s workable - but I’m gradually weaning off it for more obvious reasons).