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.

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[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 22 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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

kinda proving the reason right there... who gets to be 'default'?

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months 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@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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@moist.catsweat.com 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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!'

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

Oh, well my point still stands, just not that instance.