If the attention this post is getting isn’t a strong indicator of what our communities want, and the direction that the fediverse and all instance admins should follow, then nothing will be.
Especially now, because of the extra obstacles of joinin the fediverse, users are on average more aware of the implications of such a thing. We should listen our people.
Absolutely, and it’s been very refreshing to see discussion get broader and be filled with memes and other interesting content.
It will take a while to get somewhere close to Reddit, but if we talk about how it feels, I see it getting closer and closer day by day.
Thanks for the heads up, fuck this bloat/spyware shit.
You can absolutely feel how much bigger it got, and it feels more and more populated every day.
I’ve been here only one week and the change has been so obvious.
Same, I tried to move to Signal a couple years ago, but I couldn’t get anybody except one friend to follow, so I gave up on it. I would try again, but I know it wouldn’t go any different, yet.
Gain a monopoly, get users addicted and reliant, then change the rules of the game and hope they stick with you. It’s happening now because of the economy for sure, but it’s not like it’s surprising.
That’s a fair point, sorting by new is a great way to hunt for good content and help it get traction, but maybe right now it’s more effort than it should be.
Having said this, adding a waiting time before posting again might just as easily prove more inconvenient to legit users than those who spam posts, but I’d support it at least for the time being, as discussion right now is spread over several communities so sorting by new on a single community wouldn’t help much most of the times.
I see Lemmy and the fediverse more as an evolution of how we approach the web. We should absolutely cater to more casual users eventually, and try to have as many people as possible to leave behind these greedy internet monopolies. We clearly saw that they’re not the way to go.
How we get there is a bit of a question mark, it’s clear that there’s a big push from more involved/aware users to break away from big corporations. This doesn’t mean we’re building on outrage, just that it was the initial push to get something new started.