Also known as snooggums on midwest.social and kbin.social.
This is the only federated software that I use because it is the only one in a format I enjoy using. I liked reddit for the threaded forum kinda format, so lemmy was an easy transition.
Never liked facebook/twitter/instagram or those formats so no interest in a federated version of them. There could be something out there I would also like, but thst would require trying more things and I gave up after bouncing off a few.
People forget about subscriptions all the time when they are cheap enough. The admin might even have some kind of grouped payment for multiple domains/sites and doesn’t bother cleaning them out to shut them down.
I’m just imagining a bunch of people in Honda Elements yelling at each other about video games.
Companies putting their stuff into discord is like all the businesses that ditched a dedicated website and moved to facebook however many years ago. Yay, now it is on a format that doesn’t work well for presenting static information and will inevitably require account registration!
We need to talk about Kevin.
“I can get a Whopper from McDonald’s and I don’t have to see any crap from Papa John’s because McDonalds is defederated from them.”
Provider doesn’t make any sense when the content is coming from other places.
Fine, “I choose Burger King as my hamburger provider but I expect to be able to access a Big Mac from Burger King unless they are defederated.”
Having it all in one instance so people who don’t like it are able to block it at the instance level is pretty awesome.
I like it.
So not closed off as in non-federated, just invite only? So a barrier like the ones that have applications, but based on something other than fiktering who joins the community?
Not only is that counter to the entire point of federation, but invite only approaches only works for closed systems. Nobody is going to wait for an invite when they can just join any server.
Using invites as in outreach to spread awareness without being a silly restriction, sure. Maybe aim at getting people’s interest by promoting some server. But exclusive invites makes zero sense. At best it might work on people who are already here who want a very specific server in their name, not attract new users.
Yeah, I loved rif as the mobile app for reddit because reddit’s mobile site has always been trash and the rif experience was so much better. I’m glad there are options for those who want them, and the desire for user tagging might lead me to trying something out eventually.
Most of them space things out in ways I don’t like and I hate gestures because I do things accidentally all the time. I can keyword block througb ublock origjn, although I do understand it is easier in most apps.
User tagging is the only feature I feel like I’m missing on default mobile lemmy.
I have also hit app fatigue. Just fucking sick to death of having a massive number of separate things that could be done through the browser.
Tried it a year ago and didn’t like it.
Easily switching is the real hurdle, because there are a massive number of reasons that someone would want to switch. For example I started on kbin and switched when the instance died.
Also everyone wants different driving experiences, the driving experience varies widely from country to country and state/province to state/province, and everyone wants different features and capabilities in their cars.
Cars are a great comparison, although there are also people who don’t drive for a wide variety of reasons…
Eeww, apps.
Unexplained choices are extremely frustrating and cause confusion. It would be awesome if people could magically choose the right instance for themselves without being aware that they are making a choice, but that just isn’t realistic.
Choosing was the only thing that was difficult about joining Lemmy, and it was difficult because I did understand federation and also understood that the feed and moderation would differ from instance to instance.
Honestly the only thing I can think of to make the experience better would be having the ability to preview the feeds from different instances with your settings applied and an easy way to move account settings to a new instance.
The core idea of having recommended themes for buttons is great, especially if it leads to communication between devs and group concensus so the best ones rise to the top even if not everyone follows the recommendations.
I do think having recommended thematic icons would be great, and the Hot example is on point for all three. The fact that new and old use very similar icons between the three apps is both understandable and would be annoying if trying out more than one.
On the technical side they could abuse API calls although that wouldn’r be necessary because using the current API setup but flooding it with massive amounts of data would be a burden on locally hosted instances. The main reason I am opposed to Threads and other social media federating with their massive amounts of mediocre to crap data would be overwhelming for both instances and users. Yeah, there are blocks and all that but if the server is dying from being overwhelmed with traffic it doesn’t matter.
The big players can damage the fediverse simply by being allowed to federate.