Exactly. Getting my account her took a week. I had to sign up then go through an application process. Like I get it, it helps reduce bots and stuff but golly it’s a pain and the average user isn’t going to do it

The several apps thing I don't see as much of a barrier to Redditors; most are already used to the platform's official app being garbagepuke and going with something else so they'll figure that out relatively quickly.

I haven't yet seen the "Pick an instance to sign up with. It doesn't matter, well actually it does, for reasons we're not explaining right now" problem really addressed in a meaningful way. Those lists of instances to join when you go to Lemmy or pixelfed or whoever's website? Most of them don't get filled out correctly by instance admins; so they're either the default boiler plate, or they're the first two-thirds of the first sentence of a paragraph about what Lemmy is.

Lemmy.world

Lemmy is an open source, federated link aggregator platform powered by ActivityPub, the fastest growing...

You are not crazy: we've seen reports where whole entire posts along with every single comment underneath them were copied nearly word for word, though separated years apart (I'm talking like a decade here). The usernames were changed, but it was extremely recognizeable what happened there.

The motive to maximize profits, to the exclusion of all other criteria (such as morality) very obviously rules Reddit right now. And Google (extremely unfortunately now touching Android), and Meta, and Apple, and every other large mega-corporation. This is no conspiracy theory when the very CEOs themselves state this clearly and unambiguously - the masks worn in prior decades are now off.

In any capitalist society, the mantra applies that the buyer must beware. Keeping corporate power in check is somehow communist, and therefore seen in an enormously negative light by conservatives.

Sorry, you said you wanted to step away from politics. Okay then I'll just say that Reddit got bad for "reasons", which will never change in the future; however while they are free to do whatever they please, so too are you. Welcome here where we've made our own forum boards like the days of old, minus ads, minus spez, no Algorithm controlling your feed (I mean obviously any sequence of steps is an "algorithm" but sorting All or Subscribed posts by New hardly qualifies compared to Reddit's "pushing" controversial enragebait content while actively hiding... ah... "other" content - cough socialist cough - and pushing other stuff in its place, Praise Be To Our Totalitarian Leader May He Live Forever...), add in blackjack and hookers, and we are ready to go!

On the surface, that works. Problem is, to use the Fediverse you have to get a bit deeper into it than with email.

Email is designed to evoke the UX of the physical post office. To use the post office, or email, you need to know your address, and your recipients address. You need to know where to put outgoing letters, and where to get incoming letters. Even if you're vaguely aware of Grumman LLVs and letter sorting machines and trucks and trains and whatnot, you can still get away with conceptualizing it as, you put a letter in a box, it is then "In the mail" until it is delivered to the recipient. Email presents itself to the end user as exactly that.

ActivityPub might be "just another protocol" like smtp or pop3 or whatever but the user experience is vastly different in ways people really haven't had to deal with before. Lemmy isn't lke the post office, it's like Reddit, except there's 90 little Reddits each with their own slightly different rules and a complex web of which will communicate with what. The format of the electronic communique is of no consequence to the end user.

On Reddit, if I write a post in a subreddit and click Post, it is stored on Reddit's servers, and anyone with a Reddit account can access Reddit's servers and see it because we're accessing the same monolithic system. On Lemmy, I'm currently posting to lemmy.world from a sh.itjust.works account in response to an account from programming.dev. On which of those three independent platforms will this message be stored? How could someone from, say, piefed.social see it? I genuinely don't understand this fully msyself and I've been on Lemmy for a couple years now.

I wish there was more of an active gaming community.

I find on a system with minimal RAM that shit gets super expensive really fast.

Yeah, me too. For some hobbies there just isn't a lot of activity.

We have some regular pc gaming communities:

• !pcgaming@lemmy.ca
• !linux_gaming@lemmy.world
• !pixeldungeon@lemmy.world
• !factorio@lemmy.world
• !steamdeck@sopuli.xyz
• !zocken@feddit.org

And some about tabletop games:

• !tabletop@beehaw.org
• !dnd@lemmy.world
• !scifi@ttrpg.network

Not sure if there's more, that's about the ones I'm aware of. Lemmyverse.net has a few more: https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=gam

how can we be ready this time?

I'm here to chew bubblegum and sass noobs; and I'm all outta noobs.

I thought about spinning up a lemmy server but honestly the moderation and being responsible for content is a huge concern

I might actually have to instance block lemmy.world if it's too bad since it attracts the worst kinds of new users due to open registration.

On Reddit, if I write a post in a subreddit and click Post, it is stored on Reddit’s servers, and anyone with a Reddit account can access Reddit’s servers and see it because we’re accessing the same monolithic system. On Lemmy, I’m currently posting to lemmy.world from a sh.itjust.works account in response to an account from programming.dev. On which of those three independent platforms will this message be stored? How could someone from, say, piefed.social see it? I genuinely don’t understand this fully msyself and I’ve been on Lemmy for a couple years now.

It's stored on all of them. Piefed.social can see them because piefed.social is federated with sh.itjust.works, lemmy.world and programming.dev.

Are they already doing that?

lemmy.world is really slow at accepting applications, we should not be suggesting it for new users

but you're fine to stay there since you're already in

for big communities, we can sort by New Comments instead, Reddit doesn't have that

I like switching between Subscribed+Scaled to see stuff from my smaller communities, then Subscribed+New Comments to see the active stuff

there are a lot of video game communities already

• !askgaming@piefed.social
• !games@lemmy.world
• !games@sh.itjust.works
• !gaming@lemmy.ml
• !gaming@lemmy.world
• !gaming@piefed.social
• !nintendo@lemmy.world
• !patientgamers@sh.itjust.works
• !pcgaming@lemmy.ca
• !playstation@lemmy.world
• !xbox@lemmy.world

honestly too many lol, luckily PieFed has feeds to help this issue https://piefed.social/f/games

there's even more if you include the more specialized communities https://piefed.social/f/allgames

there are a lot of video game communities already

• !askgaming@piefed.social
• !games@lemmy.world
• !games@sh.itjust.works
• !gaming@lemmy.ml
• !gaming@lemmy.world
• !gaming@piefed.social
• !nintendo@lemmy.world
• !patientgamers@sh.itjust.works
• !pcgaming@lemmy.ca
• !playstation@lemmy.world
• !xbox@lemmy.world

honestly too many lol, luckily PieFed has feeds to help this issue https://piefed.social/f/games

there's even more if you include the more specialized communities https://piefed.social/f/allgames

that's kinda already how it works

https://join.piefed.social/ suggests you just join the default instance

https://join-lemmy.org/ gives a random default

PieFed does a pretty good job with filtering, it asks when you signup if you want a filter for US politics

Decision fatigue? Almost everyone picks lemmy.world, and the UX is the same everywhere, specially if you use mobile apps.

Well what do you expect when the entire community thinks everyone should sign up for Lemmy.world and make this place even more centralized?

Its really stupid, but thats what it is.... Hey look, we have federated technology! Lets all go to Lemmy.world because its the largest instance and users dont know what to pick anyway, so lets just put them there.

Lets make another centralized reddit with federated technology!

Honestly I dont think federation even is a valuable feature. People just want to be where everyone else is. The idea is good, but people dont care about the tech, they just want to use their apps and enjoy the experience.

There are some small advantages to many instances but the trend is to not even federate with instances that you dont like, so... Lol.