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Please use kbin instead - It's not run by literal Chinese state apologists.
>Don't overthink this. It doesn't matter which instance you use. Nah. Disagree and I don't even know why is this highlighted. It really does matter what you choose. Same with Mastodon. Each instance has an admin who can do whatever they want (eg delete the instance and permaban you) and on top of that each topic has a mod too. Plus your instance can be de-federated by others (what if your instance end up being a far…
I heard that the ActivityPub protocol is pretty inefficient when you have lots of small instances, so I would think joining an existing instance should be preferred. I'm not sure why you think that switching instances is too hard for avg people but running your own isn't?
Please use kbin instead - It's not run by literal Chinese state apologists.
It really doesn’t matter, I don’t think. You can avoid the official-ish servers run by developers and join another, or host your own. At the end of the day, Lemmy’s just server-software. Whatever the developer’s politics are, it doesn’t magically poison the software.
>Don't overthink this. It doesn't matter which instance you use. Nah. Disagree and I don't even know why is this highlighted. It really does matter what you choose. Same with Mastodon. Each instance has an admin who can do whatever they want (eg delete the instance and permaban you) and on top of that each topic has a mod too. Plus your instance can be de-federated by others (what if your instance end up being a far…
It may be intentional, it may be due to a byproduct of how the federation details are implemented, but regardless of how it came to be the end result is an undesirable protocol for discourse and as far as I'm concerned, not worth the effort compared to just switching to scraping Reddit until a worthwhile federated social network appears.
I just really hope it's not discord who will replace it but I fear they have a good shot. And while discord is great for real time communication with others passionate about a topic, it's worse at sorting, ranking and finding old information.
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> New user experience is very confusing. You have to learn a bunch of dorky sounding terminology right away (instance, fediverse/federated, etc), and there are a whole bunch of instances to choose from, but none of them may be particularly appealing or relevant to you specifically. For technical discussions, this is a feature not a bug. Having a small technical hurdle to get over before contributing is a filter when…
Reddit is a massive social website. The vast majority of the value of Reddit comes from the fact that it's humongous. A niche community that tries to filter out most people isn't a Reddit replacement.
Personally, this post is peak Reddit to me https://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/1d9xh5/epic_of_the_...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36282351
Can anyone tell me how the fuck hackernews’ algorithm works to where I can’t ever get traction but someone else does after me?
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> The kind of person who's attracted to the idea of federation is going to be disproportionately likely to want to self-host That's not my experience on Mastodon. Most people seem to be on shared instances. Very few people self host. It's mostly tech affine organisations who self host.
I didn't say most people would want to self-host, I said they would be disproportionately likely to want to. To make up some numbers: if 0.001% of the general population wants to self-host, maybe 0.1% of fediverse users would if it were easier. Even with tiny percentages, there are still a lot of small instances and the protocol should have been designed for that.
Maybe it is still possible to fix the protocol. I think it's pretty impressive that it does work so well in practice (from a non-self-hosting users perspective)
My personal gripe with lemmy is the lack of decent mobile clients.
Oh my god this sounds just like mastodon. Having a social media site dependent on a manual to use and understand just sounds like the worst idea.
Took me less than an hour to register and get comfortable with Lemmy.