This is a good thought but a bad post for YSK

Is picking a server/federation too complicated?

Yes, but because 90% of the fediverse is older tech nerds, good luck getting them to acknowledge it.

Improving my work emails is 99% of what I use ChatGPT for.

What I’ve seen others recommend, and I think would have helped, is the ability to ‘port’ to another instance. So it can just be “Go create an account at lemmy.ml. Don’t worry about the instance, we can always port later if you want”.

I know now it doesn’t really matter (and have accounts with all the big instances) but I agonized over what instance to join at the beginning because I didn’t KNOW it didn’t really matter.

The ‘port’ ability also seems like something that is just a good idea in general, so I believe that to be the best option (that I’ve seen).

undefined> I disagree that it was harder to sign up for.

You are correct, and I misspoke. By ‘harder to sign up for’ I was referring to not just the actual sign up process, but the steps involved before the actual sign-up process (deciding on an instance, which itself requires learning what ‘instance’ means, as well as at least some research into what federation is, and what the differences are between instances).

I blocked reddit the day they announced the API changes, so no problem there!

What do you propose? Lemmy is significanly more difficult to understand, sign up for, and use, with far less content than Reddit. And the majority opinion seems to be ‘fuck those kids that don’t understand how to use lemmy, we don’t need them’.

Lemmy is something like .02% the size of reddit

User engagement is important, and karma is one way of driving that engagement. Pretending something’s not important from your high horse because you don’t understand it just makes you look like a spez.

The fuck is a tankie?

Moreover, recent changes in Reddit’s policy towards its moderators, along with its claim of ownership over the subreddits, could potentially destabilize the company’s legal standing. This could potentially raise questions about the company’s legal standing.

Is this the first draft of a high school report?

Voat was about 50% fatpeoplehate, 35% T_D, and 15% ‘free speech’ enthusiasts. The 15% were quickly pushed out by the overwhelming amount of content generated by fatpeoplehate, but eventually they got tired of posting the same things over and over and only T_D was left.

The delivery person thought the very AUDACITY to ask them why they’re there was racist. It happens all the time.

“Hi, can I help you”

“What, you don’t think I belong here? It’s because I’m black, isn’t it you RACIST!”