What the title says. I think there is still a long way for that to happen but i’ve been hopeful. What do you think?
Lemmy, yes. Mastodon, no. I could make no sense of mastodon and found nothing of interest.
I agree, with Lemmy it’s alot easier to jump in and begin browsing content. With Mastodon it seems you have to know who to follow before you can have content on your ‘home’ feed, so it’s very dependent on who you follow. Which is hard when none of the folks I follow from twitter are on mastodon, so I just have no clue where to start 😅
That’s because Mastodon is a federated Twitter clone. If you never used Twitter to begin with (which is really for professionals/celebrities/famous people to put out public messages to people), then you won’t get it. Most people don’t need to use Twitter or anything like it.
Mastodon isn’t enough like Twitter imo. It’s too complicated and the separate severs just make things even more difficult. Reddit was always focused on posting under a community, Twitter is community optional. Community optional doesn’t translate well to decentralization at all imo.
I just run off of their big main server and it works fine for me ☺️
How is that functionally different than just having the entire thing be centralized, though? At that point the decentralization is just a footnote that makes the website more confusing. The main instance could be sold off one day and walled off from the other instances and nobody would be able to do anything about it.
I mean, I could run my own node for everything. Just have enough on my plate with work and such.
I could make no sense of mastodon and found nothing of interest.
That’s exactly how I felt about twitter years ago, before retro game console modders started posting announcements on it. Couldn’t make heads or tails of it, and more importantly, I didn’t have any motivation to do so, because there was no content I cared about.
I found with Mastodon I had to force myself to really give it a couple of goes to get how it worked. Initially it seemed like a ghost town, it’s definitely way harder to find interesting content at first especially if you’ve picked a general server. None of that, or really how the whole things works, is really explained to the user, but I’ve found the experience is getting a bit better.
It started clicking with me when I searched a few very specific hashtags and started following them and the people posting in them. Definitely a lot more work to find stuff on there though. If it’s got any chance of taking off, the onboarding process needs to be a lot easier, especially for users coming from Twitter, Instagram and others. The first impression leaves a lot to be desired.
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Yes I do. What I am looking for is federated/web3 replacements for Instagram, and some kind of well encrypted, decentralized messenger app
Signal is well encrypted and very much respects privacy of data, but I don’t think it’s federated. It can interface with normal texts though iirc
No, but it’s a step in the right direction to rolling back Web 2.0 and the utter shitshow it’s turned into.
Open protocols and no single company in charge is like IRC, newsgroups and so on, before we traded it all in for a nicer UI and handing all our data to future billionaires.
It needs to be able to evolve though. IRC could have become Discord, but we just abandoned it. Watch that do the same as everyone else over the next few years, as all those venture capitalists start asking for their money back.
Mastodon: No. It’s a very shitty alternative to Twitter where the quality depends wholly on the instance you join. The discoverability of federated content is so bad that if you go into that tab, you just see nothing but porn.
Lemmy: Possibly… It feels like a far less astroturfed alternative to Reddit.
I’d like to think so but it will take a lot to lower the bar in terms of general confusion with the different instances and federation
No, there a lots of tiny bits of things that just make it a difficult experience compared to reddit.
I have both a Lemmy and Mastodon account besides my Twitter and Reddit account. Every person and channel I follow on both Twitter and Reddit, I immediately follow on Lemmy and Mastodon once they have an account and channel over there. But it’s all about content and interaction. Keeping track of the Ukraine war, for instance, was difficult on Mastodon. But posting on Mastodon was a much nicer experience in regard to interaction with members over there.
Imo reddit and twitter had both become too big and bloated, leading to a lit of the toxicity/recycled content. I think there’s plenty of room for more platforms to arise and become successful, while the old ones stay “mainstream”
Basically reddit and Twitter will become the new Facebook over the next 5-10 years.
Need the money to work out; definitely not the same dynamics. Maybe more of the people who care for their communities.
I think that Lemmy has the opportunity to replace Reddit, time will tell how far this can really go. Just weeks ago, posts on here were only getting hundreds of upvotes. However, now I’m seeing multiple posts hit thousands a day on lemmy.world. There are many improvements to make until then, some UI, and UX improvements. I know that many people still have trouble understanding the concepts of federation so until those can be resolved I still think that it’s not going to reach that level of accessibility. I think we all know how Reddit failed here and lost many users.
It has potential, bu I hope it will not become like those mainstream soc-med…
Fediverse is like a village where each denizen trying to self-sufficent and helping each others while mainstream soc-med is like train station or mall where users just come and go while giving money to its owner for their services…
We may need one or two mainstream soc-med to be alive to keep up with news or to socialize with normies, but we also need a place to retreat like current fediverse.
edit:typoFor me, it’s now entirely about content. Lemmy is technically well above the adequate.
I remember reading old science fiction stories where a freer,more bottom up kind of internet existed. Maybe, maybe, maybe we can get a kind of thing like that? We have the technology. Why not?
I think Lemmy is coming along nicely. There is lots of content for me to consume. I am on lemmy.ca so I haven’t seen any of the bugs other people are talking about, it just works except for subscribing to places on the busy instances which shows pending for a while.
People will get used to how this works and I think it snowballs from here.
