I love how a human female tempest furiously yells "Inferno!" when overloading fire, as if she's about to burn down an entire f*cking village!
The worst is "History is mine" imo, just sounds so stupid to me. Something dies inside me everytime I hear it.
I think being able to migrate your identity from one instance to another is a core requirement to fulfilling the promises of federation. The idea is to be able to freely leave a bad instance, but all you can do now is completely start over on a new instance, losing all your posts and followers. That's way worse, and not how it should be imo. No big instance has gone rogue yet afaik, but as soon as one does this will be a major issue!
To really accomplish that we would have to create a mechanism for a user to own their own identity, e.g. in form of some sort of secret key file. This would introduce a huge number of usability issues though! Handling key files is really hard, so that's probably not an option in the near future.
What we definitely should add is some sort of instance single-sign-on, so you can log into another instance by having your original instance authorize the login attempt. This should then allow the new instance to use your original account (for subs and posts), and also migrate that account to the new instance (update handle on all your posts, migrate your followers, ...). This would be a bit worse than owning your identity, because your original instance could just refuse to authorize any SSO attempts, but it would still be a big improvement imo.
Maybe we can also just combine the two, so instance SSO and being able to download an identity key as backup.
I don't think it will ever be too late to change things. Look at their current design direction: They changed a system of profession specific boons into a somewhat homogenized alac+quickness system over the course of 1-2 years. They could do something similar again if it doesn't work out the way they want.
But one other thing came to my mind. I think perma boons you have to spec into might fulfill the offensive support fantasy better than a time-limited boon. With perma boons you associate the boon with your party or the boon provider specifically, while a temporary boon feels more like a property/mechanic of the enounter you're fighting. With perma boons you have to stay close to your group for example, while a temporary boon would only requires you to stack on boon application, like many other boss mechanics. Maybe that's just me, but being the boon guy sounds more fun than being the one to press a certain button at some point, provided boon support gameplay is fun as well of course.
Alac and Quickness are not an easy design problem to solve imo. If they aren't powerful enough then nobody will use them, but if they are then people will want to stack boon supports until they get 100% uptime.
The only other options I see are having them only be worth it during certain phases in the fight, having a forced downtime like BL in WoW, or having the boon supports do virtually no damage so stacking them isn't worth it. The first makes fights harder to design as every encounter would need a burst phase, and the third is probably not fun to play, so I think WoW's BL design is the best solution. It also allows you to decide when you want the buff, so it adds a tactical element as well.
Same. Having all their custom software available and just one click away is amazing, and with Docker you can install everything else just like a regular server. It's the best of both worlds imo.
I run a Synology NAS and use their backup solution Synology C2. It's e2e encrypted, pretty affordable and well integrated into the system, so it was basically a one-click setup. Also, they keep old versions for 30 days, but only the most recent versions count towards your quota, which makes the space usage very predictable.
I think the most confusing bit is that there are multiple versions of the same "subreddit", so communities with the same name on different instances. Right now its especially annoying, because we don't know yet which of them will become the most popular. We need some way to combine those communities into one, preferably on the instance level so users mostly only see one entry per topic.
As an intermediate step you can use Piped to watch YT videos and manage your subscriptions without the fuckery.
If you don't have any restrictions (limited subdomains, service only works on the server root etc.) then it's really just a personal preference. I usually try paths first, and switch to subdomains if that doesn't work.
I'm using lemmy right now because it has a proper Android app, but I think I'll switch as soon as kbin gets their's up and running.