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With previous Rexit's like the API debarcle etc. many users were left looking for an alternative, but with decision fatigue and bad UX etc. most did not find the Fediverse a viable option.

What needs to still improve, how can we be ready this time?

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[–] InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

From a technical standpoint: No.

I'm on probably my dozenth account now. The majority of my jumps are because the instance I'd chosen became unstable, had long and/or frequent outages, or just died and went away completely with no warning.

Even the biggest instance I've ever joined, lemmy.world, choked whenever there's a large exodus from Reddit or a lemmy upgrade or a bug farts in Belgrade.

The instances with fairly open enrollment will likely break under the load. The smaller instances with ridiculous sign-up requirements and/or a need for manual approval of accounts will discourage people from using Lemmy at all.

And because of those technical issues...

New instances will pop-up quickly from determined Redditors, because the stuff that's already around can't keep up. Then those new instances will become the heavy hitters. The ones we have now will be vulnerable to atrophy and becoming insular. The overall Fediverse will be vulnerable to the silo effect, diluting its value to folks, as it will basically be RedFed versus OldFed.

From an end-user standpoint: Also no.

The "culture" would shift practically overnight. I've already seen that happen. When I first got here, people were actually kind to each other. Users stood up for others and disparaged others for being hostile, aggressive, overly negative, etc. Then we had the API-calypse surge. Now those radically kind days are long gone. It happened fast. I tried to keep it up in my own small little corner, but even I don't do as good a job as I should.

While the Fediverse may be "strong" overall, the individual pieces are too fragile to handle a significant Rexit onslaught. If even a small fraction of all Reddit users came to the Fediverse en-masse, this place as we know it would be gone.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 4 points 57 minutes ago

Yeah IMO getting popular ruined reddit.

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 1 points 15 minutes ago

May I ask what your prior instances were?

[–] VexLogic@feddit.online 6 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I've been SLOWLY getting into the Fediverse for a little over a year now. My biggest gripe has always been discovery and availability. I feel like there is a lot more effort required to find people/communities I am interested in. Then if/when I do find them they are often not very active.

So yeah I'll say what everyone else is saying that UX needs some work. I used Lemmy for a while last year and just couldn't get used to the interface, I'm not Feddit and like this interface more. But it could use some work on mobile imo.

[–] freebee@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 hour ago

On mobile Voyager is quite nice imo

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Is reddit blocking VPNs now? I don't use reddit anymore, but sometimes I search something on the web and like it or not, redditors in niche communities have good answers to uncommon questions. Definitely better than can be found on quora or other places.

But it doesn't let me view them, supposedly because I'm using a VPN now...

If that's the case, fuck spez and all corporate sellouts. Reddit used to be a mecca for freedom of association...

[–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

VPN is irrelevant here if you will need a government ID to access it, what difference does it make what country you pretend to be from

[–] Addv4@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (3 children)

They block unless you're logged in. It's very annoying, still have to use reddit occasionally to find some info or something niche (admittedly not as bad as finding something on discord).

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[–] forkDestroyer@infosec.pub 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Digg just crying in the corner right now.

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 1 points 14 minutes ago

Digg already came and went again

[–] TheOctonaut@piefed.zip 6 points 3 hours ago

Sign up is still a confusing, exclusionary, inaccessible mess. So, no.

[–] Nemo@slrpnk.net 32 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

Ready for a bunch of teens coming in and trashing the place? No.

[–] datavoid@sh.itjust.works 1 points 31 minutes ago

Teens will probably find a way to verify using fake info. It seems like it's generally the old and jaded who are willing to dump things out of stubbornness.

[–] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 5 points 2 hours ago

Gatekeeping, nice.

[–] ObtuseDoorFrame@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 hours ago

Yes. Lemmy is toxic as fuck. They couldn't possibly make it any worse than it already is.

[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 hours ago

We've always been ready. Ready for the drama. 🍿

[–] Mikina@programming.dev 6 points 3 hours ago

I don't want people from Reddit here.

The fact that half of Twatter moved to Bluesky instead of Mastodon is a blessing.

ActivityPub is by design a data harvesting goldmine, the fact that it flies under the radar is the only saving grace.

[–] Scotty_Trees@lemmy.world -1 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

You want the truth? Lemmy isn't going to get more Redditors here, what you got now is it. And it will eventually die like Digg.

[–] im_just_a_gerbil@thelemmy.club 2 points 32 minutes ago

i just arrived bc that was the last straw of the constant reddit enshittification. so there is at least one.

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 1 points 15 minutes ago

How will it die?

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 27 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Carrolade@lemmy.world 32 points 4 hours ago (5 children)

This. Video games too. And porn for that matter. We're overall a little weak on the trifecta of primary internet subject matter.

At least we're solid on owls though, my enduring admiration to our dedicated owl posters.

[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Unironically this. We need cute animals. Cats, owls, moths, capibaras, pangolins. If we're not gonna have one of the two "true movers" of the internet (porn and correcting people who are wrong) we need something good to compensate.

[–] rimu@piefed.social 1 points 7 minutes ago

There are a lot of owls. But also cat, dogs, etc - https://piefed.social/topic/wholesome

[–] Naho_Zako@piefed.zip 1 points 56 minutes ago* (last edited 55 minutes ago)

I've genuinely been thinking about starting nsfw fandom (anime/games) communities centered around more female or queer orientated audiences but I don't know if I'll want to deal with moderation and having to keep it active...

Edit: I also wish we had more silly mini comms of things. I have a family member who finds a new cat sub like every week, but we don't really have that here.

[–] aquovie@lemmy.cafe 7 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Every time I think about starting a community about one of my hobbies, I look at a random modlog and realize I don't want any part of it.

[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 hours ago

The trick is starting a community, but delegating moderation to someone else. Admin ≠ Mod.

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