It would make more sense to not just pull everything by default and let instances control how much federated content they want locally and rely on the owner instance to provide the rest on demand.

Which is why everyone gets the option to subscribe to exactly what they want to see and block users on top of that. The ability to actively choose an echo chamber is not a good solution.

If someone is of Asian decent from any country Japan invaded, their ancestors experienced equally bad atrocities that are largely ignored by the global community.

The point of the fediverse is the federation. It’s like going to a public meet up, and getting a handful of people to join your private meet up. They used the fediverse to help them grow, and once they were self sufficient they cut the rest of the community off.

Block chain was more on analogy than implementation. The key is that data isn’t bound to an instance, and ideally most people never need to know about instances.

If an instance shuts down everything from it is just gone. ML already ran into dns issues once, if it goes, 20% of lemmy is just gone.

The same people that do now?

It doesn’t need to have the full trustless or buring energy for fun, but it does need to be resilient against instances going down, which currently isn’t the case.

The fediverse isn’t over engineered, it’s just not quite focused on the right aspects. A federated social network needs to be more like a block chain, where the content is centralized, and the instances (miners) are decentralized. The content is the important part, and with everything being tied to an instance, it makes the content harder to access. You have instances defederating, going down, closing, and version conflicts, all that makes it harder for a network to gain traction.

The pain is the point. The fediverse expects you to know the right answer, and go through the pain of figuring it out. It could make changes to make finding the answer easier, but new usersare expected to suffer just like existing ones have.

It’s the same with Linux, you have to know a handful of quirks that could be eliminated, but doing so provides 0 benefits to existing users. No one cares about letting new users have an easier time than they did.

It’s the Linux mindset, the pain is the point.

I think posts is being inflated with bots copying reddit, my subscribed feed has noticeably slowed and even trying to find more communities to get more posts hasn’t been a huge help.

Anything but support of Palestine and Hamas is against the views of .ml.

A dying one is generally worse though.

It would be simpler if users didn’t need to understand the details of federating to join in the first place.

Swap mastodon for lemmy and Twitter for reddit and it’s the same comment.

A big part of having more substantial discussions is just having more people. 40k is a good number for active shit posting and stupid jokes, it’s way to small to have a community about hobbies or even most major metro areas. You need at least 2-3x more people active to at least start to get moderately specialized communities like pro sports. For something really niche, you probably need at least a million MaU.

I think lemmy only has two types of posts, these with less than 10 comments and ones hexbear folks posted in.

To use a somewhat stretched analogy. Instances should be like bitcoin miners, I don’t need to know much about them individually at all. My only concern is that there isn’t a majority miner/instance.

It doesn’t have to be a reddit clone, but the federation needs to move to a more mandatory model, and one that puts the content first. The current system is far too user hostile to allow anything but the lowest common denominator of communities.

Instances shouldn’t be first class citizens, they should be more invisible to the users. The fediverse should be more like a cloud. Communities should be the primary focus, and only allow Instances to control how many users/communities they are the primary/secondary source for.