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What do you think are the biggest upgrades (infra or usability) that could be made to the fediverse? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 year ago by piz@sh.itjust.works to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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Like many others, I've been using Lemmy since the reddit blackout started. A few things I think would help onboard folks more easily or contribute to long term success of the platform(s) are:

  • an actual introduction to federated sites and what it means, including what happens if your home instances get blocked by ones you've subbed to (if this exists drop a link!)
  • a better scheme for allowlisting instances. I noticed the one I registered in got removed from beehaw, and as someone who considered starting my own it's not clear if that style of instance management is doomed to fail
  • more / better apps! I wonder how similar the api is to reddit and if existing apps could be ported over

Any major pain points or improvements y'all can think of to continue encouraging adoption?

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[โ€“] danileonis@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Your points are all valid. I think at this moment, with Mastodon and Lemmy became very usable and pretty comparable to their centralized counterpart, all other minor platforms should be supported more. Funkwhale, for example, feels far behind in term of attention and support but maybe it could be better integrated in Mastodon or Lemmy.

[โ€“] piz@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I disagree. I think there are still enough major improvements to make before the platforms can become big enough that rather than splintering the development efforts it would be a much better idea to focus on core functionality like improving how activitypub is implemented.