For the majority of commenters: UX is not UI.
The poor UX experience is the research a person has to do before they can even participate. You need to have a basic understanding of how the network works, and then you have to shop around for a server.
It’s enough friction to prevent people from on-boarding and that’s not good for a platform that needs people to be valuable.
They didn’t, they signed up for gmail.
If the next console is backwards compatible it will be a day one purchase from me. All I want is a Super Switch.
I remember playing the GBC Dragon Warrior Monsters game and being totally enthralled by it.
I had no fucking idea what was going on, and I didn’t come close to beating it, but it was fun.
Wouldn’t it be prudent to build features into Lemmy that make it easy for admins to manage user data though?
I’ve been following BlueSky closely for a while and I’ll just add a few points here:
There is currently a federation sandbox for developers, it’s definitely on the way but it is a significantly different model than AP. Severs are really “dumb” and it has an emphasis on using a handful of services to crawl the network and generate a pipeline of all posts.
Moderation and custom algorithms are also a part of the decentralized model. Custom algorithms are out now, and custom moderation services are also under development.
Having played with both AP and ATP a fair amount they definitely both have strengths and weaknesses, very different approaches to decentralized social networking.
I asked this in the original thread but I’ll repeat it here:
Are there any limitations with the ActivityPub protocol you find limiting? Do you have recommendations for future versions of the protocol?
Do you have any thoughts on the AT Protocol (a potential competitor to AP)?
Have you found any limitations or pain points related to the ActivityPub protocol? Are their improvements you would like to see to the spec?
EDIT: On a related note, do you have any thoughts on the AT Protocol?
Okay. So will it run the eShop?