At least Lemmy is open source and there isn’t any advanced analytics running and telling server operators exactly what you look at and for how long. And if there was, it would be discovered quickly and you could host your own instance and only look at content locally.

Your posts aren’t private. But that’s the whole point so that they can be seen and federated

Sir, this is a Wendy’s

Apollo was the best Reddit app on iPhone. Voyager continues its legacy

voyager is available as a web app if you’d rather use your browser vger.app

If people can’t understand what federation is then just send them directly to .world or lemm.ee or another big instance. If they have common sense then send them to join-lemmy and let them pick an instance. If someone is unable or unwilling to learn a very basic concept then they probably are not going to be a very good neighbor to have on the fediverse.

I agree that the discoverability of communities needs improvement. I think that most instances should add starter pack like features with the most popular communities for people to choose to subscribe to when onboarding new users.

In my opinion, finding the right and active communities to subscribe to is the biggest onboarding hurdle, not picking an instance. If picking an instance is a hurdle, that person wasn’t willing to try another site in the first place

If you are looking for an app, Voyager is the best in my opinion. It’s totally feature complete afaik

The people who aren’t here are making excuses to not be here. Otherwise they’d be here.

That being said the feud between world and ml users is pretty noticeable

The fediverse is ran by volunteers. Engagement is organic and isn’t trying to sell you something. Everything you see is there because someone thought it was worth sharing

Really anything is better than the default UI. The default Lemmy-ui is functional but not elegant.

I can’t tell you how to on-boarding process is these days but the UX of using Lemmy via Voyager is even better than using Reddit. In fact Reddit killing Apollo (the app Voyager is based off of) is the whole reason I’m here

On mastodon I follow a lot of hashtags and so I will mute foreign language accounts so they don’t show up in my home feed. Thankfully I’ve never had to block an entire instance but I chalk that up to troublesome instances already being defederated from my instance

Haven’t tried self hosting Pixelfed. Just mostly been trying it out on the main instance. I’m really shocked that it’s a mess to deploy with docker if it’s on PHP/Laravel.

I hate PHP these days for dev purposes but I think laravel ought to be able to scale enough to run most Pixelfed instances. Facebook ran PHP when it was much larger than Pixelfed.

The Pixelfed app isn’t very good right now compared to instagram was when it wasn’t terrible. Hope that Dan hires an actual UX designer to update the app with his kickstarter money. And that he can integrate loops with it as well.

Instance admins have to take on the responsibility and liability of running a website, I don’t think most would also want to leave it unmoderated as well. For the most part if you aren’t on beehaw, hexbear, or ml/grad. Most instances are fairly “free speech” according to your definition. I don’t think I’ve ever had a comment removed.

If you still don’t think that lemm.ee or .world is “free speech” enough for you, you are free to host your own unmoderated instance. Don’t expect anyone to federate with you though if your free speech is hateful or inflammatory though.

I specifically mean when it comes to supporting either Mastodon or Bluesky. I’ve only started reading his work the last few months after, well everything, so I’m not terribly familiar with his entire writings.

I’d agree with your point as I don’t really care for his political writings as I don’t really find them realistic. I had to roll my eyes at his post of how to cut the federal budget.

I rarely see any performance issues. Maybe once a month or so the main page won’t load for a couple hours.

I comment and browse a lot, but not obsessively so. I can’t say I’ve ever had an issue with performance with .world

Doctorow lays out the technical challenges of ATProto and why it really isn’t really feasibly federated or decentralized, and why he supports Free Our Feeds. He’s pragmatic and is primarily concerned with stopping enshittification, not concerned with being married to ActivityPub.

That’s most likely due to the fact that docsis dedicates most of the spectrum on the cable for download not upload since that’s what most users want. Now if those are fiber speeds maybe you have a different argument but cable networks are designed to give the most people the best experience and dedicating spectrum to upload would be a waste.

If you want to pay more, I’m sure your cable provider would give you a symmetrical cable plan for $400 a month

Improve cross instance search and for more creators to move from other platforms

I wonder if it has something to do with the default Lemmy front end. I don’t have any slowness using Voyager on mobile or m.lemmy.world on desktop