I'm not a Twitter user. Never have been. I don't get how Twitter is useful for friends, communication, or anything but following your celebrities or news outlets. To me, I always got my news from Reddit, or RSS feeds. I loved Reddit for the content and information, and the amount of users it had that produced GOOD content to...
@abff08f4813c The main thing about all this is that there were no alternatives to Reddit until now. We needed a good push and reason to leave but never had a tangible alternative with nothing even showing up in Search results worth checking out. Now we do, All these big corps are screwing themselves, and we now have a BETTER alternative than all of them. So keep screwing up, Reddit, we have a place to go now. Keep screwing up, Twitter, Google, StackOverflow, Tumblr, Imgur, and all others that will soon follow suit.
they require them to understand the concept of what a 'server' is to even get started.
I've known 5 year olds start minecraft servers. And understand that each "world" is an "instance". But that's aside the point, as you're right that even Help-Desk IT people struggle to understand the difference between computer and server.
It's not hard, it's just new.
The "new" part is what gets people. All of this is new. Even the implementation of all of this "fediverse" is new. It will come with time! People probably didn't understand email vs snailmail, and probably had an even harder time with SMS/IM vs email when all of that came about just over 20-30 years ago. Most of these "complications" are from people that grew up knowing that the "internet" is basically 5 or 6 social media sites for very specific uses, and those 5 or 6 sites are older than most of the people using them, so that's all they know. Even for a dude in IT, the fediverse was a new concept to understand, and even difficult to understand how it could best be implemented for the masses.
So I was thinking of a few ways to help create a bit of direction in the chaos... These are probably already in the works or intentionally NOT implemented, so I'd like to hear why or why not. These are just a few thoughts of mine....
Not to hate on Kbin, but I think there's a reason Mastodon is best for the Fediverse (kbin.social) en
I'm not a Twitter user. Never have been. I don't get how Twitter is useful for friends, communication, or anything but following your celebrities or news outlets. To me, I always got my news from Reddit, or RSS feeds. I loved Reddit for the content and information, and the amount of users it had that produced GOOD content to...
Reddit protest plunges user engagement, site activity and ad portal visits (techcrunch.com) en
Reddit protest by its community moderators has impacted user engagements, traffic and visits to its ad portal since its beginning on June 12.
I don’t understand people who say they can’t figure out Lemmy or KBin (kbin.fedi.cr) en
Does federation have a bit of a learning curve? No doubt....
Making a few easy, but standard decisions with new instances? (kbin.social) en
So I was thinking of a few ways to help create a bit of direction in the chaos... These are probably already in the works or intentionally NOT implemented, so I'd like to hear why or why not. These are just a few thoughts of mine....