What are some things that you enjoy or dislike about the Fediverse so far.
Mastodon is great. Feels very much like the early days of Twitter and is a solid product so far. I have a PixelFed account, but I haven’t played around with it that much yet. Seems pretty good., though we shall see. I have an account on a Matrix server, but I’ve only signed-in and used it once; Discord is still far more useful.
Lemmy is…Eh. Idk. Rome (or reddit) wasn’t built in a day, I know. It can be difficult to find the content or discussion I want because people are so spread out. Usually when numbers are low, you don’t want people spread out because it makes communities feel empty, further driving people away.
But more than all that, I find the platform itself so limited. Like the moderation tools are terrible. Can’t even block a problematic domain. It seems like if you delete a comment in a thread, all the comments underneath it vanish. Makes it difficult to sometimes leave moderation comments. And Federation or Defederation seems way too binary to me; there should be shades of gray. Though I think the Fed/DeFed binary is true of all Fediverse services.
Like I enjoy spending time here. But I’m not yet convinced that Lemmy is the right platform. FWIW, I’m also trying Kbin on a separate account; in some ways seems better, but in other ways, just seems confusing.
I usually really like seeing the little number pop up when I get a response on my comment, instead of dreading it’s someone trying to pick an internet fight. People are nice here. (Usually)
But it needs more original content, that’s how Lemmy and the entire fediverse can grow.
Okay, I’ll bite
First off, I totally agree! People are my much nicer here and the little notification is often a nice thing.
So I read a bit of your post history. I’m not the -most- socially aware but I’m assuming sans-proof you’re not actually Margot Robbie. So like … Why? Is it a promo thing? Weird quirk? Actually an actor doing “normal people stuff”? Do you actually use Arch(why?)?
No dude it’s really her
Is it a promo thing?
I did do my movie promo here in July before the SAG-AFTRA strike started. (it’s all on my lemmy.world account) Then the movie did amazingly well at the box office, I thought maybe I found the hidden secret to social media success, so now I wanted to see if I can shitpost my way into finally getting an Oscar this year.
Do you actually use Arch(why?)?
A few years ago, I thought it would be funny if I learned how to use Linux and tell people that “I use Arch by the way” like the meme, so I spend a couple of hours and installed Arch an old laptop (it’s really not that hard, you just follow the directions on the wiki!), then nobody got the joke, so now I have this Arch laptop to play around with and type
sudo pacman -Syuin occasionally.
Same! I realized not long ago that I don’t actually dread the notifications anymore. I used to get such anxiety over the red envelope that I had already started thinking I was due for a change before the blackout happened.
Good. No complaints, except it needs to get bigger so it can support niche communities. I like how Lemmy has more powerful formatting rules and and “preview” button so you don’t have to do ninja edits if you get it wrong.
I’m still frustrated by the sorting on lemmy and still have to use top 24 hour to feel like my feed is current. I feel like I don’t get breaking news as quickly as I did on Reddit a that frustrates me and leads me to lurk /r/all occasionally.
Mastadon has all the content I want but no people in the places I’m at. Feels very empty.
@June It’s one of the reasons I use Kbin/Mbin is because I can follow people who are on Mastodon and still get there content on the Microblog area as well as see the the Lemmy stuff through Threads (the tab not the application).
What I like: Alexandrite for desktop Eternity for Mobile
Eternity is the best, it’s perfect like infinity. I usually only realize I’m on lemmy because of the quality of the users
I think it’s incredible, just needs some more love from users and developers to get it to a stable place. It truly feels like something we’ve all built together. I think the pros outweigh the cons by far
@silas I do to, user love is really what this place needs more of (even know we have a lot already) as more posts we have the more people feel we might be a good place to use instead of places like Reddit.
Too much of the same kind of people. Not enough diverse, different opinions.
So. Many. Tankies. I’ve had to block countless instances/communities.
Tired of hearing about Linux. It’s a cult on Lemmy. Like the people who bully you into using Apple products.
Technology instance is too often not about genuine technology. Usually whining about Amazon business practices or bitching about Musk.
If I stick to my own subscriptions, it’s not bad. On All? An endless hell pit.
The only thing I don’t like about the fediverse is the constant stream of people blathering on about how “we” supposedly need to centralize and homogenize it and fill it up with botspam, so that easily confused morons with short attention spans will move here.
@Rottcodd I know one of the bits of content I hate is the cross-posted news stuff, yes I saw it the other 50 posts you done of it. I’ve already tried to get friends involved in the Fediverse and some really refuse to even look at it due to the open source-ness of it.
