shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 19 hours agoWhat's Mastodon precious?lemmy.dbzer0.comimagemessage-square90fedilinkarrow-up1953arrow-down153
arrow-up1900arrow-down1imageWhat's Mastodon precious?lemmy.dbzer0.comshittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 19 hours agomessage-square90fedilink
minus-squareJesus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down1·4 hours agoWhenever Lemmy or Masto gets a flood of new users, a portion of them never make it past the instance selection and totally bail. The user experience was designed by people who literally respond to user feedback by telling users to commit new code to the project. It’s clearly designed by engineers who assume other users will be just like them.
minus-squarenaught101@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 hour agoIf bluesky ever becomes actually federated, won’t it have the same problem?
minus-squareBongles@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·56 minutes agoThe way sign up currently is, probably not. It would still default to bsky.social and your average person isn’t going to think about it.
minus-squaremadjo@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·24 minutes agoBut then it’s not federated. It’s all on one giant monolith of a server. Perhaps the traffic is shared between machines, but that’s not the same thing as federated.
Whenever Lemmy or Masto gets a flood of new users, a portion of them never make it past the instance selection and totally bail.
The user experience was designed by people who literally respond to user feedback by telling users to commit new code to the project.
It’s clearly designed by engineers who assume other users will be just like them.
If bluesky ever becomes actually federated, won’t it have the same problem?
The way sign up currently is, probably not. It would still default to bsky.social and your average person isn’t going to think about it.
But then it’s not federated. It’s all on one giant monolith of a server. Perhaps the traffic is shared between machines, but that’s not the same thing as federated.