Do you like the Mastodon approach of consistent branding for different instances? (lemm.ee)

submitted 4 weeks ago by 3dmvr@lemm.ee to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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It makes it easier to understand what this is and that they are interconnected, but I think I enjoy unique branding/themes more in practice now that I am actually using the fediverse.

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[-] Kichae@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 weeks ago

No. I think it works to hide the distributed nature of the fediverse, and works to make things that are inherent to a distributed model seem uncanney and broken.

It also strips some value out of the 'local' experience, communicating that each Mastodon-based website is the same as any other, and presenting something that looks like a dumb terminal, rather than a stand-alone website.

Ultimately, I think it's bad for the fediverse.