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You need users to have a social network and users, at most, want to enter an email address and password to get an account. And then they want it to work normall
by garbagecoder 3y ago
You need users to have a social network and users, at most, want to enter an email address and password to get an account. And then they want it to work normally.
I you want a site for hackers, you can just write it in your own lisp dialect (; but if you want a social network you have to make it much, much easier. Not sure the decentralizers understand just how critical that is.
Also users, aside from a few loud ones, really do want at least some minimal moderation.
- sschueller 3y agoExactly, barrier to entry is way high at the moment.
- JohnBooty 3y agoAbsolutely. It's why I haven't really cared about Mastodon. I'm an engineer and it absolutely seems like a correct approach to me but it's never going to appeal to the general public outside of engineering-adjacent crowds.
- gnoop 3y agoThey don't understand or at least the current implementation states as much. You have to first pick a server to join, then join that server. Once in, you're typically presented with local server content only. To see federated content, you have to select "All". Same story with looking at communities. Local first, All by selection only. You then have problems with the style of Federation. If I create a community one Lemmy instance called tech then you create the tech community on another, we now have two tech communities separate from each other. Given your default community view is local, this presents a problem. You've already got a lemmy.ml technology community along with a beehaw.org technology community. It can quickly spiral into a mess of unintentional duplication.