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What do you mean one is defederated from the other? I'm on lemmy.world and can see all beehaw communities just fine.
I mean, it's not shutting them down, but it is absolutely hurting revenue. Looking at the latest stats for posting and comments, they have rebounded a fair bit from the low point, but they are still about 10% lower than pre-AMA Reddit. That may not sound like much, but since their revenue is largely due to ads, this definitely has an impact. By estimate, the protests have lost reddit about $500,000 so far. That may be a drop in the bucket, but if it stretches on for weeks, they may simply decide it's worth it to bargain. The API is definitely not going to stay free, but if they could work out a deal that a) gives developers time to transition to a new pricing model, and b) is more reasonable in cost, that would be great.
I understand that....the average person is not going to. Also, you EXPLAINED it to someone (I also explained it to my wife, who is not a tech person at all, and she understood fine), but again, it takes explaining. For this to take off, it's going to need to be accessible without a lot of explanation. Otherwise people just won't care.
It will absolutely.
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The average non-tech savvy person will be extremely confused about how federated services operate. You say "join lemmy', and they say, 'ok, what's the site?" and then you need to explain, well, you need to pick one of about four thousand instances, and then only go there when you want to sign in. Now they're already confused. That can then be explained 'It's like e-mail, lots of different servers to get email, but they all work together." But this doesn't hit as well because a website is not e-mail, and so interconnected websites are not immediately intuitive. And as soon as you start going into any level of technical details, the average person just tunes out and decides "I don't want to deal with this crap."
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If they pick an instance (Like Lemmy.world or sh.itjust.works) that allows free signup, they won't have too much of a problem. If they pick one that has questions to answer and then a manual approval process that is COMPLETELY opaque, they will nope the fuck out immediately and not even bother to find other instances. Heck, I was turned off of Lemmy for several days because of this, and I'm very tech savvy, and have been doing this sort of crap forever. I signed up first at Lemmy.one, which eventually got my login active, but took 3 days. When I saw no indication of that signup working, though, I tried Beehaw. That STILL has not been activated and it's been 5 or 6 days, and of course, there's no indication of what's going on during that time...it's just a spinning wheel. Not until I went to an instance that didn't have these ridiculous manual approvals did I begin using Lemmy. The average user is not going to bother with that.
These are going to be the biggest things that hold Lemmy back (there are also some serious usability issues with the main feed, concerning repeat posts showing for DAYS, and the autorefresh everywhere, which pushes content down constantly if you're in the New feed).
Edit: what is the deal with lemmy randomly changing posts? This reply was composed in a thread about “Will the Fediverse turn off mainstream users?” I hit reply and then the reply posted in this thread. This happened to me last night too.
God I hope. I know I’m a spoiled fan, but I’d love to see Sid, Geno and Tanger get one more. I know full rebuild is coming very soon.
I’m grateful for his first two.
Just did a quick tour with it.
And there he is.
This is awesome.