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How long until Threadiverse is ready for normies? (mander.xyz)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Some things I think are needed first:

  • greatly improved UX for handling links to content hosted on other instances: you shouldn't have to use the inconspicuous search function to access it via your instance,
  • community collections: aggregating communities by topic each with a clear overview, their own feed and a nice, convenient way to create and view crossposts between them,
  • more polished and stable app(s),
  • ease of migrating between instances (massive bonus if we can have portable identities),
  • a change in how we present the core idea behind the federation model: it's not about aggregation (this misconception leads to frustration over "fragmentation"), it's about community self-governance/autonomy and error-correction (as in making it easier for communities to migrate if authority is abused).
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I agree on all accounts. I currently have to force myself to use lemmy, through the unfinished apps and the slightly frustrating UX. If it wasn't for my belief in the core idea of the platform, I'd be back on reddit by now. If someone doesn't strongly care about decentralization or whatever, then I don't see why they'd stay here as it currently is.