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Am I the only one who can’t get used to Fediverse? (self.asklemmy)
submitted 11 months ago by s1vgm to c/[email protected]
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I’m fairly new to the Fediverse, and I'd like to share my onboarding experience. Personally, I appreciate the concept of decentralization and the community-driven aspect of Fediverse. I’ve used Mastodon and Lemmy, based on ActivityPub, for a while:

  1. I find it difficult to get all the updates I need on a particular instance, and except for a few very large instances, most others appear quite quiet and like the Internet ten years ago.

  2. The content and style of each instance tend to be quite diverse. To find someone to follow, I must switch between different instances with lengthy domains.

  3. Fediverse isn't truly decentralized; instances operate under the will of server owners, who can ban and remove content as they please.

These reasons prompted me to explore more decentralized networks, I mean truly decentralized networks, such as Nostr.

However, creating a Nostr account and saving the Recovery Phrases is challenging (I lost my first Nostr account due to the loss of Recovery Phrases). And generally speaking, the user experience on Nostr is much worse than Mastodon, full of scam and ads.

I believe people should leave Twitter due to shadowbans and robots and Facebook due to privacy concerns, but I'm struggling to choose a platform to migrate to. Each has its drawbacks, making it difficult to decide.

I'd love to hear your opinions on this.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Lemmy still uses algorithms, but they do not use personal information. When you sort by “Hot”, “Active” etc. you are using an algorithm.

[–] TORFdot0 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Hot, Active, Time Sort, are open algorithms that we can see exactly how they work. Unlike closed social media algorithms which I think is the point that he is making.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Exactly. Everyone can see how and why an algorithm on Lemmy shows what it show.

[–] lmaydev 7 points 11 months ago

All computer code is algorithms.

The point is without that personalisation it's much less likely to show things you are interested in.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Algorithm in this case refers to a personalization algorithm, something that Lemmy does not offer.