besides the whole decentralised nature which is a plus anyway
Fun until you realize that other instances can block other big instances from accessing them.
Ex. Beehaw defederated lemmy.world: https://beehaw.org/post/567170
And sadly for mainstream users, federation is too complicated compared to single instance :/
Not just that, but from what I saw they also require you to write a motivation explaining why you want to join. I always find it extremely hard to write down that kind of stuff in my native language, let alone English. Wouldn’t surprise me if a lot of people are put off by that as well.
I’m a little concerned about defederating, doesn’t that mean once an instance gains a big enough following it can just defederate and force everyone who wants that content to move to it? Then we get the exact same problem happening again.
At least there are alternatives I guess, just hope we can keep it spread out and not just have one or two big servers that dominate the lemmyverse.
Fun until you realize that other instances can block other big instances from accessing them. Ex. Beehaw defederated lemmy.world: https://beehaw.org/post/567170
And sadly for mainstream users, federation is too complicated compared to single instance :/
Wow I almost joined yeehaw instead of here… They seem too quick to block other instances
It’s not a surprise people joined those instances – yeehaw required approval. To many people that means “wait 24 hours” so they went elsewhere
Not just that, but from what I saw they also require you to write a motivation explaining why you want to join. I always find it extremely hard to write down that kind of stuff in my native language, let alone English. Wouldn’t surprise me if a lot of people are put off by that as well.
I’m a little concerned about defederating, doesn’t that mean once an instance gains a big enough following it can just defederate and force everyone who wants that content to move to it? Then we get the exact same problem happening again.
At least there are alternatives I guess, just hope we can keep it spread out and not just have one or two big servers that dominate the lemmyverse.