• MentalEdge
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    61 year ago

    Mastodon has gotten really good at obfuscating the federation away in normal use, Lemmy and Kbin are picking up those tricks a lot faster.

    For example, v18 made linking communities possible by just typing the name, and Lemmy then handles making it a working link on each instance.

    The trickiest part will be having users pick an instance, but once past that hurdle, the federation aspect doesn’t need to be a complicating factor.

    • TotalBullet
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      11 year ago

      The trickiest part will be having users pick an instance, but once past that hurdle, the federation aspect doesn’t need to be a complicating factor.

      Yep, that’s the thing. When Mastodon was hot for a while, most complaints I saw were about people not getting that they can pick almost whichever instance and/or having trouble deciding because they didn’t fully understand that it usually matters very little.