One thing that bluesky did very well was abstracting the decentralisation (i know, its not really decentralised, bear with me) was having “apps” be centralised. What if we just pointed people towards a lemmy.app thing and that had a server as default?

Alexandrite.app does this, but it defaults to lemmy.world which is a bit of a dealbreaker.

Edit: By “app” I mean client.

  • originalucifer
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    238 days ago

    hahah lets have a centralized app… but not like that!

    kinda proving the reason right there… who gets to be ‘default’?

    • @Lost_My_Mind
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      68 days ago

      Why not have the default be random, and if you don’t like the one given, you can randomize again or type your own.

    • irelephant 🍭OP
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      18 days ago

      Well, its a centralised app to a supposedly decentralised network. The underlying network isn’t decentralised by design. If you were to treat every bluesky pds as an instance, it would be very similar.

      Also, you can take inspiration from something without copying it exactly.

      • originalucifer
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        78 days ago

        i wasnt referring to bluesky. i never would, that shit sucks. its just another walled garden.

        i meant the whole ‘look lets do it like this app currently is, cept not lemmy.world!’