The problem is that the fediverse has genuine usability problems. Even from the perspective of a technical person. I am a sysadmin, and i self host a hilarious amount of things for no reason. Yet even i find the verse frustrating. Discoverability is near non existent, searching is hard, many instances just have duplicate content for popular topics, people don’t understand how federation works for the main feed so you get times where stuff like that instance that is only for women pops up on a bunch of different instances Main feed and you have to deal with all the “shutup man this isn’t for you!” And then of course there’s always the which one do I even make my account on and then even after you do select one there’s no guarantee it won’t shut down at some random point and you’ll be forced to migrate etc.
I’ve been on lemmy for a while and i still struggle to find content i want sometimes, but things like bluesky? It’s easy, i found what i wanted easily and the algorithm picked up on what i liked and what i didn’t and brought me more of what i wanted.
And the big problem with open source Alternatives and the fediverse is that instead of acknowledging that these are issues that need addressing and usability could be improved. They will instead tell you that it’s your fault and you should give up all of those nice interactions for the sake of being decentralized. It’s up to you to put in the effort to search every instance ever and find the content you want and bring it all together, it’s up to you to migrate as needed and deal with other things caused by the decentralization. I just want to find some nice art, talk about some interesting Tech stuff and avoid politics to relax. Bluesky and even to some degree reddit let’s me do this easily, lemmy makes it difficult.
I’m a sysadmin as well and the number of technical glitches is frustrating as hell. This site doesn’t even function well on a vanilla PC with Firefox.
I think it has something to do with a ban, but I can no longer save posts or edit my own posts or comments. Happened for a month, went away, came back. It’s my account, tested with a fresh one.
Also, I go to post and it simply disappears or glitches. That’s how I know I’m banned on that comm. Can I get a little red flag or something?
When I look at replies, I only get so many and it cuts off. Below the cutoff is replies from months and years ago. Those posts are just stuck there, can’t remove them, can’t scroll past them.
Lemmy.world is constantly glitching. I can hardly bitch about a free service, but unreliability drives people away.
Not a glitch, but I’d love a NSFW only switch. Seeing as they’ve coded a working NSFW blocker, it would be trivial to reverse it.
Honestly, PieFed solves so much of that - like combining all comments across all cross-posts, and Topic Feeds, which are user customizable and shareable, and showing the sidebar text with all the rules and such below each and every post in a community, not only on the community page itself, plus adding flairs (user and post), polling, a true blocking ability for all users from an instance, blah blah etc. but the chief thing is that it keeps growing so quickly. Python is just that much easier to code in than Rust, I suppose, or else the devs are just super good (or both?:-).
I lost hope for Lemmy long ago and almost decided to leave it, even if there was nowhere else to go. I am so glad to have found PieFed.
Even then if I want to learn about certain things that are barely talked about here, I have to go back to Reddit. I lurk now but that is where the people have decided to share their content, so if I need specifically it then that is where I need to go to read it.
Yet even i find the verse frustrating. Discoverability is near non existent, searching is hard, many instances just have duplicate content for popular topics
I find the ability to filter for communities both on Lemmy and Piefed, as a new user, to be far better than Reddit. Community owners can change the name of a community for increase its visibility, you can organise by activity. Especially with Piefed 1.2.
The problem is that the fediverse has genuine usability problems. Even from the perspective of a technical person. I am a sysadmin, and i self host a hilarious amount of things for no reason. Yet even i find the verse frustrating. Discoverability is near non existent, searching is hard, many instances just have duplicate content for popular topics, people don’t understand how federation works for the main feed so you get times where stuff like that instance that is only for women pops up on a bunch of different instances Main feed and you have to deal with all the “shutup man this isn’t for you!” And then of course there’s always the which one do I even make my account on and then even after you do select one there’s no guarantee it won’t shut down at some random point and you’ll be forced to migrate etc.
I’ve been on lemmy for a while and i still struggle to find content i want sometimes, but things like bluesky? It’s easy, i found what i wanted easily and the algorithm picked up on what i liked and what i didn’t and brought me more of what i wanted.
And the big problem with open source Alternatives and the fediverse is that instead of acknowledging that these are issues that need addressing and usability could be improved. They will instead tell you that it’s your fault and you should give up all of those nice interactions for the sake of being decentralized. It’s up to you to put in the effort to search every instance ever and find the content you want and bring it all together, it’s up to you to migrate as needed and deal with other things caused by the decentralization. I just want to find some nice art, talk about some interesting Tech stuff and avoid politics to relax. Bluesky and even to some degree reddit let’s me do this easily, lemmy makes it difficult.
I’m a sysadmin as well and the number of technical glitches is frustrating as hell. This site doesn’t even function well on a vanilla PC with Firefox.
I think it has something to do with a ban, but I can no longer save posts or edit my own posts or comments. Happened for a month, went away, came back. It’s my account, tested with a fresh one.
Also, I go to post and it simply disappears or glitches. That’s how I know I’m banned on that comm. Can I get a little red flag or something?
When I look at replies, I only get so many and it cuts off. Below the cutoff is replies from months and years ago. Those posts are just stuck there, can’t remove them, can’t scroll past them.
Lemmy.world is constantly glitching. I can hardly bitch about a free service, but unreliability drives people away.
Not a glitch, but I’d love a NSFW only switch. Seeing as they’ve coded a working NSFW blocker, it would be trivial to reverse it.
Have you considered another Lemmy instance, or https://piefed.world/ ?
Honestly, PieFed solves so much of that - like combining all comments across all cross-posts, and Topic Feeds, which are user customizable and shareable, and showing the sidebar text with all the rules and such below each and every post in a community, not only on the community page itself, plus adding flairs (user and post), polling, a true blocking ability for all users from an instance, blah blah etc. but the chief thing is that it keeps growing so quickly. Python is just that much easier to code in than Rust, I suppose, or else the devs are just super good (or both?:-).
I lost hope for Lemmy long ago and almost decided to leave it, even if there was nowhere else to go. I am so glad to have found PieFed.
Even then if I want to learn about certain things that are barely talked about here, I have to go back to Reddit. I lurk now but that is where the people have decided to share their content, so if I need specifically it then that is where I need to go to read it.
I find the ability to filter for communities both on Lemmy and Piefed, as a new user, to be far better than Reddit. Community owners can change the name of a community for increase its visibility, you can organise by activity. Especially with Piefed 1.2.
People tend to overcomplicate the thing. Sync for Lemmy was a 1:1 clone of the one for Reddit.
Users can just jump in without any idea of what federation is: https://lemmy.zip/post/47438646?scrollToComments=true