The best analogy for me would be to use something the person you’re explaining to already uses. For example, if they’re a reddit user, I just say imagine everyone has the capability to create their own reddit website, and everyone’s reddit sites can be interconnected and you can choose to join whichever site you want and see content from the other sites. If they’re coming from twitter, just change the it from reddit to twitter. It’s much easier than using the email analogy.
I hope so, but I feel like people will move to youtube shorts or whatever instagram calls theirs before they would consider Loops, just like they chose Bluesky over Mastodon.
That’s too bad. Their Mammoth app for Mastodon is pretty good and has a curated feed feature that kinda helps new users get content into their feeds, something that people who are used yo algorithms complain about when they try out Mastodon.
The Mammoth for Mastodon app has curated smart lists and a For You feed. It can also suggest people to follow based on your interests. I think that’s an easier way to get new users started vs importing a csv file which the average internet user will be too lazy to do.
Not really. I mean, sure it’s the same concept, but email has been getting semi-centralized between the big players now, with gmail and maybe icloud getting the largest chunk of users. That would be similar to letting users choose between .world or .ml to sign up with, which is against the fediverse principle to spread the load as wide as possible.
When you present the lowest common denominator internet user with hundreds of instances to choose from and requiring them to think further than clicking through a sign-up page, you lose user interest pretty quickly.
I’m more concerned about scalability. Hosting video gets expensive pretty quickly once people start signing up and using it.
Storage costs is the biggest hurdle for decentralized video platforms. I wonder how instances will handle that.
Getting the BTS fanbase to switch platforms is huge and can essentially get you millions of users in an instant. I wish Mastodon was in the picture though.
Mastodon (microblogging, follow users) and Lemmy (forum, follow topics) cater to different kinds of users. I don’t subscribe to personalities, I subscribe to discussion topics, that’s why I’m on lemmy and not mastodon.
Cool! I might join as this is another avenue to get my music out to more audiences, but I agree with the other comment, not discord please.
Is there anything Sublinks will offer that’s different to Lemmy? Because if not, I’m afraid the issues OP is talking about would still exist either way.
For the lowest common denominator social media user, the bar is even lower. As long as everyone else they follow and care about is on the platform, they will happily move. They won’t even care that they will be free from ads and tracking because they never cared in the first place.
“Fed” pertains to federation so it kinda works. Compare that to Lemmy or Mastodon that have no relation at all to the fediverse (AFAIK).
I don’t understand how they didn’t use .btw instead of .fyi for that instance.
Very appropriate name.
Most lemmy apps do not embed videos/gifs and have to open them on the in-app browser. The only ones I know that can do it are Arctic and Avelon, of which the latter put scrubbing behind a paid subscription. So Arctic is one of my top lemmy apps, even though Thunder is my favorite for general browsing.
Another minor issue for me is almost every app tries to look like Apollo, so they end up all looking the same. It’s one of the reasons I like Thunder because it looks a little different.
English isn’t my first language so I might be using “inherently” incorrectly, but I thought it means:
in a way that exists as a natural or basic part of something
So in its basic and natural form, email is not secure. It wasn’t designed as such. Full E2E encryption was only implemented recently by certain providers within their own domains, and won’t work across the board unless all of them cooperate, which won’t happen.
Exactly, that was my point. Email as it is, is insecure, because you can’t encrypt it and make it work universally unless everyone else does.
Well for one, email is inherently insecure, so not sure if the fediverse can learn from that. It’s already not private.
It’s mainly on facebook messenger for me. You’re right that it’s really hard to keep tabs on family/friends with a feed that’s full of stuff you’re not even following or subscribed to. So by “keeping tabs”, it’s actually just being able to keep in touch via messenger. Other than that, I use marketplace to sell stuff, but that’s it.