I tried out a growing Reddit alternative, Lemmy, for a week, and its clear that federated apps aren't ready to replace Reddit yet.

Compared to established, age-old platform? Yes, we’re less developed. But do you know what’s even worse? Corporate greed! Rest assured, we’ll improve and mature over time.

  • pascal@lemm.ee
    3·
    1 year ago

    All valid points, but… Who’s going to pick the servers that make in the “curated” list?

    • arc@lemm.ee
      2·
      1 year ago

      Change the initial sign up flow on join-lemmy.org. Don’t say “join a server”, say “join Lemmy”. Don’t show a randomized, indecipherable list of servers, just pick one for them from the a curated core set. If someone wants to learn about federation or wants to choose a server, then provide an option to do it, but don’t just throw that in their faces. In other words, make it as simple as possible to sign up.

      The website in cooperation with servers that want to be used for that purpose. It would help also if servers were to provide useful meta data about their primary / secondary languages, regions, interests, most active subs, policies, version data, uptime etc. so that if someone clicked a “search for server” or “advanced” link somewhere in this page that there would be able to sort and filter servers might they might be interest in.