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what is the thing you think the fediverse is not prepared for? (thelemmy.club)
submitted 1 week ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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i am a new user on the fediverse but what is the thing that in Big Social

but the fediverse is not prepared to replace

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[–] 6 points 1 week ago (5 children)

This is kind of a problem I'm dealing with. I get the federation and the different servers, that's just using gmail to message Yahoo. However, I picked lemmy.world when I bailed out of reddit because I wasn't keen on losing my account if a smaller server closed. Now I don't know where to move because half the verse has a block on world.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    yeah, not sure what to tell you.. theres just no warning when your instance is run by shit heads.

    you could go check https://fedidb.com/servers for places to test.

    theres some open servers minimal on de-federation that have been around for awhile.. i would call these 'on-ramp' servers.. they host little locally-created content, but users can interface with the rest of the verse freely... mine is one of those.

    cept im not using lemmy. lemmy is kinda fugly imho. i wanted a more contemporary old.reddit

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago* (1 child)

    As a casual user, having your server (picked due to larger size) blocked by others due to poor moderating (assuming this is the problem with .world), will likely lead to simple abandonment of the platform. At least by those who are generally well meaning, but not engaged enough to learn more quickly.

    I imagine the attrition rate from this alone will keep adoption low.

    I'm willing to put in a bit more effort, but I'm in the same boat... Just chilling on .world, probably missing out on things I don't even know about, and I'm not likely to put in the time to change that soon, I have other problems lol.

    If the general trend is to wall up when in disagreement, and larger servers collapse too easily under the weight of to many casual users vs dedicated mods (as selection pressure would tend to move more dedicated people to smaller more controlled servers)... Well hopefully the smaller communities can grow at a sustainable pace, while us casuals try to find the right one/s.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago*

    Not many instances defed .world, I don't think it's anything to worry about unless there's specific ones you know you want

    PieFed has added features that reduce the need for defederation, and hopefully Lemmy will copy them

    Also you don't really need to leave .world, you can use 2 accounts, the 3rd party apps all handle this nicely

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