Day 2 here, and I can see the growth already. Personally I really like the notion of how its gonna shape up in the future but at the same time I really feel for the average user as of now its too complex to understand the working and how the cross servers thing is working. I mean yes still early days, UI will improve further leading to a better UX but the core mechanism yet is little tough to get along. For instance, still unclear if I made the right choice by signing up on lemmydotworld why not lemmydotml , beehaw etc… and where does this stop? like in the coming times i it would be like a thousands of servers lemmy.this lemmy.that lemmy.etc or anything.anything. That’s soo confusing for someone who just wanna join a server. Would be interesting to see how “signup anywhere, its the same thing” evolves.

  • salmacis
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    211 year ago

    To be fair, that’s how things used to be on the internet. You’d sign up for various forums or message boards with different accounts. Then it all became consolidated under one roof, and message boards started dying. What’s happening with reddit now shows the danger of that.

    • Braggston08
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      Yeah there will never be a perfect middleway. Either you have a lot of small kingdoms where sometimes some of them go rogue or you got one big one where the Leaders literally rule the whole place.
      I think feddiverse will be the better option in the long run after some things get tweaked a bit more.

      • Deref
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        31 year ago

        Bluesky has a global identity system where instance accounts are just links to a DID (basically your private key). If you get banned from an instance you have to change your name but you keep all your posts and likes.

    • stephenc
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      51 year ago

      I’m personally OK with the old-school way of one account per community/server. All I really want is forums with (1) a nice clean UI, (2) nice mobile app, and (3) open APIs. Most popular forum software meets only one, or even none of these. Lemmy has all three of these. Federation is maybe nice icing on the cake, but I could take it or leave it personally. Maybe that’s denying the whole point of Lemmy, but I don’t care.

      • @useful_idiot
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        11 year ago

        Client apps will likely end up managing signup and credentials automagically. We already do it for certain/acme.

    • ppptan
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      31 year ago

      It’d be nice if there were some way to link accounts across different instances

      • @[email protected]
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        61 year ago

        It’s a decent argument to host your own instance just for your self and not having to shuffle subscriptions around

          • @[email protected]
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            11 year ago

            I haven’t looked into it but I’ve heard it’s pretty good docker, or otherwise. Self hosting is not quite at the masses yet but this sounds like one of the easier ones

      • Jeena
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        31 year ago

        There was OpenID for this, but it sadly also died.