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One Small step, a giant leap for Fediverse but... (self.selfhosted)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Puzzlehead to c/selfhosted

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Day 2 here, and I can see the growth already. Personally I really like the notion of how its gonna shape up in the future but at the same time I really feel for the average user as of now its too complex to understand the working and how the cross servers thing is working. I mean yes still early days, UI will improve further leading to a better UX but the core mechanism yet is little tough to get along. For instance, still unclear if I made the right choice by signing up on lemmydotworld why not lemmydotml , beehaw etc.... and where does this stop? like in the coming times i it would be like a thousands of servers lemmy.this lemmy.that lemmy.etc or anything.anything. That's soo confusing for someone who just wanna join a server. Would be interesting to see how "signup anywhere, its the same thing" evolves.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I'm new here, can someone explain how this whole federating thing works?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You know how discord has multiple servers?
Now imagine if those servers where actually owned by a person (self-hosted), and each server could connect with the other servers, so you can see content on whatever server you are.

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

best explanation I've seen for the fediverse

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

For reddit folks - imagine there are 10 different reddits with all of their own individual subreddits. You have the ability to only view and comment on yours, but also can look and comments on all of those others ones if you want to.

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