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For everyone new to Lemmy, how are you finding the experience? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 1 year ago by hllywluis to c/[email protected]

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I wanted to get a pulse check on how new members are finding the general experience/website. Is it more confusing than Reddit or are you finding the instance system a better way of doing things as it can give you more freedom of where you choose to create an account?

I'm a new user myself but have found the experience to remind me of Reddit back in the day, lol. It's definitely giving me old-school yet modern vibes and it's great to see something that isn't Reddit growing in popularity!

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Regarding point three: I want to be able to migrate my profile to another instance if my current instance has performance issues or admins going rogue.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think even better, you should be able to sign into any instance via some type of centralised federated login, though I guess the argument is you can't do that in multiple email clients as email is the most popular federated example.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This may unironically be the first time I've ever suggested this: this may actually be a use case for the block chain.

If the user data from all instances was being saved to a distributed and verified ledger, it would fix the problem of one node going down losing all of those users, and would be a decentralized yet centralized way to go about it.

... I feel dirty, I swear I'm not a cryptobro

[–] mobiuscoffee 3 points 1 year ago

That sounds like a pretty novel way to go about it!

I wonder how hard it would be to implement in practice?