I cannot stress this enough. This complaint has to die. It’s OK for the fediverse to not be ready for everybody yet. But the idea that we need to hide the fundamental building blocks of it, rather than retrain people for a different technology, has to end.

Servers matter. Servers are the core elements of all of this. The fediverse is a local-first, small social media space, dressed up as a big centralized one. We have to accept it for what it is.

I totally agree with you @Kichae , but in a way I also agree with @korendian , because having the choice between multiple servers is FUNDAMENTAL for the Fediverse to be truly free, but it is unquestionably a great difficulty for the typical user who no longer has time to think and choose: time has been taken away from him!

In my opinion, the best solution is to maintain this immense wealth constituted by federated servers, but to start introducing customized Apps from instance administrators that are installed and that are already set up to automatically register the user.

This is the same strategy adopted by bigtech, but also by the staff of Mastodon Social: apps are a terrible dictatorship, but today all consumer traffic travels through apps

@Emperor @JupiterRowland Hubzilla is a project that has been in a critical phase for several years. Too ahead of its time, too difficult to use, too little known and too little funded.

Before asking for an app for Hubzilla, you should personally commit to supporting the project:

hubzilla.org/page/info/get_inv…

@lps In my opinion, from the fediverse point of view, the really interesting thing about Raccoon is that, since it is compatible with mastodon, it manages to give even Mastodon users the pleasure of using Activitypub groups, whether they are Lemmy communities, Magazines Mbin, Friendica groups or gup.pe.

Mastodon’s design in fact penalizes users of groups, but this app solves the problem for Mastodon users too

@ProdigalFrog @harrys_balzac

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@CogitoErgoBloom @lealternative @jakob @fishidwardrobe You are right. Blocking an instance is a last resort, but sometimes there’s nothing else you can do. After all, if a user remains inside a problematic instance, it means that it too is problematic.

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@CogitoErgoBloom be careful, because the spam problem on Lemmy is a bit different from the spam problem on Mastodon (and other microblogging systems).

It is sufficient that the Lemmy user IS NOT SUBSCRIBED to a community to not see the contents of that community.

The Mastodon user, on the other hand, sees the contents of all second-level contacts and everything that is re-shared by first-level contacts.

For this reason, unless an instance is chock full of trolls and shitposters, I don’t recommend blocking or muting an entire instance.

@jakob @fishidwardrobe @lealternative