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To some extent this is a feature, not a problem though. I know it's elitist, but in a lot of ways the internet was a much nicer place when it was just a bunch of tech nerds.
I hope you don't mean nicer as in "friendlier," because the internet has always been a hellscape
No, I didn't. Maybe "more interesting" would have been a better phrasing. The signal to noise ratio is so much worse now than it was 20 years ago.
That's not a property of of federation (see email and websites) it's just because early adopters are a little wired. In any new social phenomenon, it takes a second wave of adopters (first wave of followers) to bridge the wierdos from the masses.
Cue this classic study in leadership: https://youtu.be/hO8MwBZl-Vc be the first one to follow the wierdos and show the masses it's cool.
But couldn't it be made easier? Who cares which server a community or a user is registered on. I register where a friend sent me the link to and from there on it shouldn't matter and could be handled in the background.
The big sites are also not one central instance. They have several distributed instances all managed by the same company.
Well there's also techies who don't (only) use Linux and like (some) sports. More of a Sci-Fi and Comic Book guy than anime here.
Let's see how this grows.
You can migrate your relationships to a new Mastodon server.
And while you can't directly transfer the history (the debate over how/whether to do this has gone on for literally years), you can export an archive you can keep locally, and there are tools out there to parse it and convert it to some other form (static website, whatever). Someone's probably written an importer by now, though I'd have to look.
This is misrepresentative for a few ways.
For one, you can in fact migrate your mastadon account, fairly easily in fact.
For another thing, instance owners and moderators don't really get to choose whether migration is possible, the code contributors do. I suppose instance owners could start forking their own version of lemmy to make that harder, but ultimately there will always be folks willing to host the "best" version, and so people will just leave
I agree. It's been fun and challenging to learn even just as a user. I work in tech and it is a lot of concepts to grasp and understand. So much potential though!
People said that about reddit, I don't think Lemmy is anywhere near being too complex for the average user. More that social medias generally favor simplicity because simplicity is easy to control, modify, and generally nudge from a developer side trying to guarantee a very specific use case that generates money, rather than just naturally occurring social systems.
Let's be real, humans have been dealing with social networks far more complex, systems more complex, for almost all of human history. The sheer volume of people, no, but the actual processes of interaction, yes.