Nies221For those who were skeptics about the fediverse: what made you change your mind?
SkullvalancheTo be honest I’m still skeptical of the Fediverse as a long term endeavor, but I’m going to give it a fair shake in the meantime.
That said, I was never much of a heavy user of twitter or reddit anyway, so watching the Fediverse explode while various corporate entities implode is just popcorn entertainment.
watching the Fediverse explode while various corporate entities implode is just popcorn entertainment.
Agree
To be honest I’m still skeptical of the Fediverse
The first time I heard about the fediverse I thought it was something different, I thought it was decentralized in the sense that users act as servers in a torrent-like system. This federation thing seemed strange to me at first but I think it’s still better than the usual platform controlled by a few people.
The only thing I see problematic to integrate into a reddit-like site is the presence of multiple communities with the same name belonging to different instances. Right now this is probably not helping lemmy’s image.
aeternumThe only thing I see problematic to integrate into a reddit-like site is the presence of multiple communities with the same name belonging to different instances.
That's what makes it better than reddit. It can't so easily be controlled by just a few people, because if one community/magazine on one instance gets overrun with toxicity, you can start a mag/comm with the same name on another instance.
That’s what makes it better than reddit. It can’t so easily be controlled by just a few people, because if one community/magazine on one instance gets overrun with toxicity, you can start a mag/comm with the same name on another instance.
absolutely, I am not against this kind of decentralization.
What I meant is that something could be done to collect the communities posts under one collection to make it easier for the user to join/see the communities content.
For example, if you subscribe to c/Technology you are subscribed to all the c/Technology communities (optional) in the federation. But this brings with it the problem of duplicates and I don’t think there is an easy way to avoid it, and obviously different communities may have different rules.
Put simply: being able to subscribe to collections.
I say this because it seemed to me, at least initially, that for new users this presence of multiple communities with the same name was annoying and confusing.
I’m still a skeptic. But Reddit is dead as far as I’m concerned
So anyways here I am I guess
Agreed. In fact, it kinda died awhile ago. I have no idea what I’m doing but I also know I’m not alone. Good luck to everyone trying to figure this shit out.
Which part are you not getting? Maybe someone can help you with it.
popemichaelWefwef was easy to use. It was an easy choice.
Things will get Reddit levels before too long, too.
I first joined Kbin a few days before the blackout, and I found it a little confusing (magazines? microblogs?), and didn’t use it much. But Reddit was going downhill, so I downloaded Jerboa from F-Droid and gave Lemmy a try. I liked the UI and found it less confusing than Kbin, so I made an account, and here I am.
Magazines is such a dumb and confusing name to call it. Communities is already perfect.
What got me off Twitter last October was the incident where Elon Musk decided to carry a sink around the Twitter offices, like a stupid, pretentious, overly dramatic jackass.
Then I joined Mastodon.
Nine months on Mastodon showed me that the Fediverse is great, and we’ve since learned that Elon Musk is lucky he was born into wealthy, because he clearly doesn’t know his ass form his elbow.
Otome-chanI had tried mastodon a while back and didn't like it. It felt like it was trying to copy twitter, but didn't really have any of the good points, and the "many small instances" thing put me off entirely from it.
Once kbin showed up I gave it another chance and actually really like kbin. It's very similar to how reddit works so it isn't jarring at all to use, and for the first few days federation wasn't on so it was possible to really get acclimated to it as it's own thing. It's easy enough to just think of it as "using kbin" and not really stress about the federating aspect.
The community on mastodon is pretty progressive which is kinda a culture clash for me, and a lot of the content I'm after really isn't on there. Whereas most kbinauts and lemmy users seem to have come from reddit, so a lot of the content/culture was brought over as well, making it an easier transition.
Client software. It’s been the turning point for me each time so far.
Ivory turned Mastodon from quirky interest/hobby-tier to something I’ll actually use.
For Lemmy wefwef.app has had the same effect for me.