Bluesky is facing increased pressure to crack down on hateful and violent rhetoric, even though robust moderation conflicts with its decentralized goals.
Federation is not that complicated to understand or work with.
Yep. Anyone who’s worked with email before should already be somewhat familiar with how this works. I personally side-eye the users I see on the corporate platforms saying that the sign-up process is too complicated. If you can’t decide on an instance in the long list of instances that every Fediverse platform provides, just pick the first one and make an account somewhere else later if you end up not liking it as there is no limit on making accounts; IMO this isn’t a difficult conclusion to reach.
People just need to throw out recommendations when suggesting the fediverse. I’m on beehaw because I saw it mentioned a lot when I first heard of Lemmy
I really think it’s down to the mere perception of it being complicated. Non-techies freak out as soon as you begin raving about the possibilities of self-hosting, de-federation etc. I think a 2-3 minute primer hosted on YT would help; ideally narrated by someone who is not a nerdy-looking white guy.
Yep. Anyone who’s worked with email before should already be somewhat familiar with how this works. I personally side-eye the users I see on the corporate platforms saying that the sign-up process is too complicated. If you can’t decide on an instance in the long list of instances that every Fediverse platform provides, just pick the first one and make an account somewhere else later if you end up not liking it as there is no limit on making accounts; IMO this isn’t a difficult conclusion to reach.
“Choice Overload” is a thing. When presented with too many choices people will be unable to make a choice.
People just need to throw out recommendations when suggesting the fediverse. I’m on beehaw because I saw it mentioned a lot when I first heard of Lemmy
I really think it’s down to the mere perception of it being complicated. Non-techies freak out as soon as you begin raving about the possibilities of self-hosting, de-federation etc. I think a 2-3 minute primer hosted on YT would help; ideally narrated by someone who is not a nerdy-looking white guy.