People there however find the concept of Lemmy “too complicated”, just because they aren’t able to wrap their heads around the concept of having a separated account and app.
One guy even claimed that one can only access communities inside the instance where the account is, thus it’s necessary to have an account for each instance.
Lots of misinformation.
Wait, you use an app? I am on browser on instance’s page. It was difficult getting started, having to sign up and wait for approval after going through instances to choose, I found one that does not censor anything but took a bit of effort many do not have patience for.
Then you get on and wander into bloodthirsty tankies, I see why everyone else blocks them.
Most apps are broken to one degree or another, mostly related to displaying images. I’m sure that’s not an easy thing to sell to people looking to join. I have sync, boost, connect, thunder, and summit installed and they all struggle varying amounts.
It’s not like there aren’t conceptual difficulties. While they aren’t insurmountable, they do exist beyond normal service.
You go to sign up the very first thing you have to do is figure out where, how, and what the implications are. Because there’s so many different entry points, each with its own rules social norms etc.
I can see where the additional complication would turn people off up front, expecting that they are going to be dealing with constant headaches after finally arriving.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t activitypub essentially have this thing that stuff you see in “All” is the stuff that is cached by your server, on the basis “someone from your server subbed to something on their server”? I mean this shouldn’t be a problem for any moderately sized threadiverse server, as you’ll see all the popular servers anyway, but idk if that’s the case for smaller ones.
People there however find the concept of Lemmy “too complicated”, just because they aren’t able to wrap their heads around the concept of having a separated account and app. One guy even claimed that one can only access communities inside the instance where the account is, thus it’s necessary to have an account for each instance. Lots of misinformation.
Wait, you use an app? I am on browser on instance’s page. It was difficult getting started, having to sign up and wait for approval after going through instances to choose, I found one that does not censor anything but took a bit of effort many do not have patience for.
Then you get on and wander into bloodthirsty tankies, I see why everyone else blocks them.
Lemmy has many mobile apps, mostly on Android. I use Jerboa as my main app, but there are also others like these:
there are others, but I can’t remember.
Most apps are broken to one degree or another, mostly related to displaying images. I’m sure that’s not an easy thing to sell to people looking to join. I have sync, boost, connect, thunder, and summit installed and they all struggle varying amounts.
Voyager and Eternity are also on f-droid
I’ve installed Voyager via Obtainium, which checks repo for releases.
For iOS there are apps like Voyager for Lemmy or Mlem
A lot of them seem to think it’s a clusterfuck and hard to navigate like Mastodon unfortuntely. Misattributed confusion lol.
It’s not like there aren’t conceptual difficulties. While they aren’t insurmountable, they do exist beyond normal service.
You go to sign up the very first thing you have to do is figure out where, how, and what the implications are. Because there’s so many different entry points, each with its own rules social norms etc.
I can see where the additional complication would turn people off up front, expecting that they are going to be dealing with constant headaches after finally arriving.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t activitypub essentially have this thing that stuff you see in “All” is the stuff that is cached by your server, on the basis “someone from your server subbed to something on their server”? I mean this shouldn’t be a problem for any moderately sized threadiverse server, as you’ll see all the popular servers anyway, but idk if that’s the case for smaller ones.
Not sure if it’s connect or Ani.social, but I’m starting to get cross posts stacked under one post. That was probably the only frustration I had.