Yeah asking people to sign up for developer accounts and manage their own API is a pretty big blocker.
I know a lot of people are probably scoffing at the above statement, because in reality it’s quite easy, but I think people often forget how tech illiterate the average person is. Hell, the number one criticism of Mastadon, Lemmy, and other fediverse sites is that the sign up process is complicated, despite the fact that it involves exactly one additional step (pick an instance).
yeah I’d say user management across instances is the biggest flaw in the fediverse right now. Mastadon has made decent progress in that area, but it’s still imperfect.
A lot of the benefits of federation are weakened by the fact that it’s a pretty huge PITA to change instances
Yeah I think the fediverse biggest limitation in general to achieving most of its stated goals is the fact that accounts are bound tightly to an instance
I don’t think you understand how the fediverse works of you think that solves the problem - lemmy.world being unstable effects its ability to federate properly with other instances
Badly managed popular instances unfortunately affects the whole fediverse
You had me right up until that last bit - As it is I’d argue there’s too much centralization. For one thing, people underestimate the technical considerations of hosting a reddit sized social media service. Once you reach a certain point, just moving to a bigger server isn’t sufficient. Also there’s the money issue of a single instance hosting all of lemmy.
But even more so than all that, the decentralization is the whole point of the fediverse.if all of lemmy was on one instance, we’d pretty much just be right where we were with Reddit, at the mercy of whoever owns that instance. When things are properly decentralized, if an instance owner goes on a power trip, it’s users can simply migrate away, and there would be plenty of other instances of equal size with lots of content. If one instance ate all the others, you’d have to rebuild from scratch if you moved
You had me right up until that last bit - As it is I’d argue there’s too much centralization. For one thing, people underestimate the technical considerations of hosting a reddit sized social media service. Once you reach a certain point, just moving to a bigger server isn’t sufficient. Also there’s the money issue of a single instance hosting all of lemmy.
But even more so than all that, the decentralization is the whole point of the fediverse.if all of lemmy was on one instance, we’d pretty much just be right where we were with Reddit, at the mercy of whoever owns that instance. When things are properly decentralized, if an instance owner goes on a power trip, it’s users can simply migrate away, and there would be plenty of other instances of equal size with lots of content. If one instance ate all the others, you’d have to rebuild from scratch if you moved
People are missing the real benefit here entirely.
No one has to go back to corporate social media (and no one should - in my opinion), but Meta’s new microblogging platform joining the fediverse means that you can consume content from their users without being on their platform. If even that is too much for you, then by all means, defederate from them, but frankly I don’t see the point other than as an ideological protest.
The fact is that fediverse data is already public, and Meta could (and probably is) already “scraping” it (though the word “scraping” doesn’t really apply with activity pub) for sale-able data, so the privacy concerns are moot. This change just means more content for the fediverse, more news media posting in a way we can access, and an easier transition for new folks.
Frankly, I see only upsides, though I know that’s an unpopular opinion on the fediverse
Future instance owners and moderators don’t want users and communities to be able to migrate seamlessly. Mastodon has the same fatal flaw
This is misrepresentative for a few ways.
For one, you can in fact migrate your mastadon account, fairly easily in fact.
For another thing, instance owners and moderators don’t really get to choose whether migration is possible, the code contributors do. I suppose instance owners could start forking their own version of lemmy to make that harder, but ultimately there will always be folks willing to host the “best” version, and so people will just leave
does this also block comments, or only posts? Sync has a similar feature, but only for posts, once inside a post you’re still subjected to their comments. Which for troll communities is honestly the worst part