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[–] 22 points 8 months ago (10 children)

People there however find the concept of Lemmy "too complicated", just because they aren't able to wrap their heads around the concept of having a separated account and app. One guy even claimed that one can only access communities inside the instance where the account is, thus it's necessary to have an account for each instance. Lots of misinformation.

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    A lot of them seem to think it's a clusterfuck and hard to navigate like Mastodon unfortuntely. Misattributed confusion lol.

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  • It's not like there aren't conceptual difficulties. While they aren't insurmountable, they do exist beyond normal service.

    You go to sign up the very first thing you have to do is figure out where, how, and what the implications are. Because there's so many different entry points, each with its own rules social norms etc.

    I can see where the additional complication would turn people off up front, expecting that they are going to be dealing with constant headaches after finally arriving.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago* (5 children)

    Wait, you use an app? I am on browser on instance's page. It was difficult getting started, having to sign up and wait for approval after going through instances to choose, I found one that does not censor anything but took a bit of effort many do not have patience for.

    Then you get on and wander into bloodthirsty tankies, I see why everyone else blocks them.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago* (3 children)

    Lemmy has many mobile apps, mostly on Android. I use Jerboa as my main app, but there are also others like these:

    • Connect (Play Store)
    • Boost (Play Store)
    • Eternity (Play Store)
    • Voyager (Play Store)
    • Jerboa (Play Store, github and f-droid)

    there are others, but I can't remember.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    Most apps are broken to one degree or another, mostly related to displaying images. I'm sure that's not an easy thing to sell to people looking to join. I have sync, boost, connect, thunder, and summit installed and they all struggle varying amounts.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't activitypub essentially have this thing that stuff you see in "All" is the stuff that is cached by your server, on the basis "someone from your server subbed to something on their server"? I mean this shouldn't be a problem for any moderately sized threadiverse server, as you'll see all the popular servers anyway, but idk if that's the case for smaller ones.

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  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago (12 children)

    What is W?

    Seems like it would be easier for the moderators there to collaborate with a threadiverse community

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  • [–] 23 points 8 months ago (9 children)

    The EU tripping. They are getting off of twitter and want to create a new one named W. Total stupidity. They should leverage on mastodon

    https://www.pcmag.com/news/w-emerges-as-x-alternative-aimed-at-combating-systemic-disinformation

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  • [–] -5 points 8 months ago (7 children)

    Mastodon is bad and doesn't replace twitter. No algorithmic feed = doomed to fail. Threadiverse somehow works only cause upvotes and comments create decent sorting metrics for browsing all subs.

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    What does "fail" mean? Twitter's algorithm is for entertainment. Mastodon is designed for discussion. Both can exist just fine, but you can't have a platform that does both well.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    What does "designed for discussion" even mean. It has Twitter UI/UX and mirrors most of functionality. It's not stackexchange.

    It just happens that mastodon has more IT people now cause other people don't eat the complexity. I've watched people try and be disappointed.

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago* (2 children)

    When i said "designed for discussion" I meant that Mastodon posts are displayed in chronological order instead of sorted by engagement.

    I agree that would result in a commercial failure, but Mastodon is not commercial, not does it have an obligation to grow. So it seems to be working very well for the people who do use it.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    After seeing piefed, I think they can divert resources to create an algorithmic feed for mastodon if they want to. Except I don't know how much they are willing to do that. European projects are riding on half anger and half nationalism, not the perfect time for rational thought.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Seems like it would be easier for the moderators there to collaborate with a threadiverse community

    We've tried several times to collaborate with the subreddit mods in the past, they never wanted to have a pinned post referring to any Threadiverse community.

    They were either power tripping or afraid Reddit would remove them, well seems like it's still happening anyway

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    That's how I found my way here!

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    [–] 6 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I've recommended Lemmy several times in the last few weeks. I'm waiting to get banned for it lmao

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  • [+] -4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)