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What do you think are the biggest upgrades (infra or usability) that could be made to the fediverse? (self.fediverse)
submitted 2 years ago by piz to c/[email protected]
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Like many others, I've been using Lemmy since the reddit blackout started. A few things I think would help onboard folks more easily or contribute to long term success of the platform(s) are:

  • an actual introduction to federated sites and what it means, including what happens if your home instances get blocked by ones you've subbed to (if this exists drop a link!)
  • a better scheme for allowlisting instances. I noticed the one I registered in got removed from beehaw, and as someone who considered starting my own it's not clear if that style of instance management is doomed to fail
  • more / better apps! I wonder how similar the api is to reddit and if existing apps could be ported over

Any major pain points or improvements y'all can think of to continue encouraging adoption?

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[โ€“] piz 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The links crash Jerboa for me altogether, but it seems like navigating via the search is a bit better then it was at first (or maybe I'm just better at using it), such that it's only a couple extra clicks to find the community linked. Still not a great user experience though.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah, it's good for people like us who are willing to deal with the learning curve and extra steps, but these are definitely annoyances that should be solved