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One Small step, a giant leap for Fediverse but... (lemmy.world)
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Day 2 here, and I can see the growth already. Personally I really like the notion of how its gonna shape up in the future but at the same time I really feel for the average user as of now its too complex to understand the working and how the cross servers thing is working. I mean yes still early days, UI will improve further leading to a better UX but the core mechanism yet is little tough to get along. For instance, still unclear if I made the right choice by signing up on lemmydotworld why not lemmydotml , beehaw etc.... and where does this stop? like in the coming times i it would be like a thousands of servers lemmy.this lemmy.that lemmy.etc or anything.anything. That's soo confusing for someone who just wanna join a server. Would be interesting to see how "signup anywhere, its the same thing" evolves.

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[-] Otome-chan@kbin.social 9 points 3 years ago

on kbin there was a long period of no federation and so I think we kinda ended up with this "kbin is kbin and then there's this other stuff" mindset. I think it helped ease a lot of us into this fediverse stuff lol. the analogy I use is email :) why pick yahoovs gmail vs protonmail? same idea.

[-] meteokr@community.adiquaints.moe 7 points 3 years ago

Email, the true OG federated protocol.

[-] imperator@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 years ago

Pretty sure that was Usenet

[-] VulcanSphere@kbin.social 2 points 3 years ago

Now we are federating, properly.

[-] Otome-chan@kbin.social 3 points 3 years ago

naturally, we're posting on selfhosted@lemmy.world right now lol

[-] TheAmorphous@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago

That analogy doesn't hold when yahoo can block gmail and proton can block all yahoo content, etc.

[-] Otome-chan@kbin.social 2 points 3 years ago

they can do that though. it just doesn't happen with big email providers. but many large email providers auto-block smaller ones.

[-] nii236@lemmy.jtmn.dev 1 points 3 years ago

Yep, so now its very difficult to run your own mailserver. Extrapolating this to Lemmy, I guess large instances will start autoblocking small instances by default.

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