My hope is that someone (Mozilla? Apollo devs?) stands up a Lemmy instance “for the average user” similar to what Mozilla did for Mastodon. It’ll take moves like that to get some degree of critical mass and help the average user switch to federated apps like Lemmy. https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-social-mastodon-private-beta-announcement/
It’s the one the devs run and so is often treated as such, but they discourage it in order to encourage decentralization and because they don’t want too much moderation overhead.
It’s unfortunate, when I signed up a day or two back I tried several other instances first but they were all down. Or some kind of weird communist thing. So I ended up with lemmy.ml simply because it was there at the time.
I’ve seen a lot of comments about adding a mechanism to allow user accounts to be migrated from one instance to another, hopefully that’ll get added relatively soon and then I’ll be able to diffuse out to a smaller instance.
Yes, if mozilla makes an instance the game will be changed. The biggest problems I’m seeing people on reddit say is that making an account is awful and picking an instance is too hard. Please mozilla
I’m making an app that will hold their hands and offer options rather than asking for decisions. I want my mom and grandma to be able to use it, but I also am building the app I wanted for Reddit - I want lots of highly customized feeds that (at least try to) save your place, I want adaptive discovery and sorting algorithms, I want to do it without building a company that will steal it away from me, and I want the data to never leave my phone so even if the fediverse is taken over, I can build a layer on top of it that can’t be
Keep an eye out for Flemmy in the near future - it’ll take some time to get there, but I’m hoping I can get enough support to do this full time. All my life I’ve felt like as a species, we’re screwed, and there’s nothing I can do but watch - and for the first time, my skills and passions are aligned. If I can’t shift the course of history now, however slightly, I’ll just spend the rest of my life watching
I’m making an app that will hold their hands and offer options rather than asking for decisions. I want my mom and grandma to be able to use it, but I also am building the app I wanted for Reddit - I want lots of highly customized feeds that (at least try to) save your place, I want adaptive discovery and sorting algorithms, I want to do it without building a company that will steal it away from me, and I want the data to never leave my phone so even if the fediverse is taken over, I can build a layer on top of it that can’t be
Keep an eye out for Flemmy in the near future - it’ll take some time to get there, but I’m hoping I can get enough support to do this full time. All my life I’ve felt like as a species, we’re screwed, and there’s nothing I can do but watch - and for the first time, my skills and passions are aligned. If I can’t shift the course of history now, however slightly, I’ll just spend the rest of my life watching
I’m making an app that will hold their hands and offer options rather than asking for decisions. I want my mom and grandma to be able to use it, but I also am building the app I wanted for Reddit - I want lots of highly customized feeds that (at least try to) save your place, I want adaptive discovery and sorting algorithms, I want to do it without building a company that will steal it away from me, and I want the data to never leave my phone so even if the fediverse is taken over, I can build a layer on top of it that can’t be
Keep an eye out for Flemmy in the near future - it’ll take some time to get there, but I’m hoping I can get enough support to do this full time. All my life I’ve felt like as a species, we’re screwed, and there’s nothing I can do but watch - and for the first time, my skills and passions are aligned. If I can’t shift the course of history now, however slightly, I’ll just spend the rest of my life watching
I’m making an app that will hold their hands and offer options rather than asking for decisions. I want my mom and grandma to be able to use it, but I also am building the app I wanted for Reddit - I want lots of highly customized feeds that (at least try to) save your place, I want adaptive discovery and sorting algorithms, I want to do it without building a company that will steal it away from me, and I want the data to never leave my phone so even if the fediverse is taken over, I can build a layer on top of it that can’t be
Keep an eye out for Flemmy in the near future - it’ll take some time to get there, but I’m hoping I can get enough support to do this full time. All my life I’ve felt like as a species, we’re screwed, and there’s nothing I can do but watch - and for the first time, my skills and passions are aligned. If I can’t shift the course of history now, however slightly, I’ll just spend the rest of my life watching
My hope is that someone (Mozilla? Apollo devs?) stands up a Lemmy instance “for the average user” similar to what Mozilla did for Mastodon. It’ll take moves like that to get some degree of critical mass and help the average user switch to federated apps like Lemmy. https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-social-mastodon-private-beta-announcement/
Mastodon has a flagship instance for normies before mozilla. Lemmy doesn’t
Is Lemmy.ml not the flagship instance? Or is it just one of the larger ones?
It’s the one the devs run and so is often treated as such, but they discourage it in order to encourage decentralization and because they don’t want too much moderation overhead.
Ah, thank you for the clarification!
It’s unfortunate, when I signed up a day or two back I tried several other instances first but they were all down. Or some kind of weird communist thing. So I ended up with lemmy.ml simply because it was there at the time.
I’ve seen a lot of comments about adding a mechanism to allow user accounts to be migrated from one instance to another, hopefully that’ll get added relatively soon and then I’ll be able to diffuse out to a smaller instance.
To expand on morrowind’s answer, here’s the long response about not being a flagship: https://lemmy.ml/post/70280
Yes, if mozilla makes an instance the game will be changed. The biggest problems I’m seeing people on reddit say is that making an account is awful and picking an instance is too hard. Please mozilla
I’m making an app that will hold their hands and offer options rather than asking for decisions. I want my mom and grandma to be able to use it, but I also am building the app I wanted for Reddit - I want lots of highly customized feeds that (at least try to) save your place, I want adaptive discovery and sorting algorithms, I want to do it without building a company that will steal it away from me, and I want the data to never leave my phone so even if the fediverse is taken over, I can build a layer on top of it that can’t be
Keep an eye out for Flemmy in the near future - it’ll take some time to get there, but I’m hoping I can get enough support to do this full time. All my life I’ve felt like as a species, we’re screwed, and there’s nothing I can do but watch - and for the first time, my skills and passions are aligned. If I can’t shift the course of history now, however slightly, I’ll just spend the rest of my life watching
I’m making an app that will hold their hands and offer options rather than asking for decisions. I want my mom and grandma to be able to use it, but I also am building the app I wanted for Reddit - I want lots of highly customized feeds that (at least try to) save your place, I want adaptive discovery and sorting algorithms, I want to do it without building a company that will steal it away from me, and I want the data to never leave my phone so even if the fediverse is taken over, I can build a layer on top of it that can’t be
Keep an eye out for Flemmy in the near future - it’ll take some time to get there, but I’m hoping I can get enough support to do this full time. All my life I’ve felt like as a species, we’re screwed, and there’s nothing I can do but watch - and for the first time, my skills and passions are aligned. If I can’t shift the course of history now, however slightly, I’ll just spend the rest of my life watching
I’m making an app that will hold their hands and offer options rather than asking for decisions. I want my mom and grandma to be able to use it, but I also am building the app I wanted for Reddit - I want lots of highly customized feeds that (at least try to) save your place, I want adaptive discovery and sorting algorithms, I want to do it without building a company that will steal it away from me, and I want the data to never leave my phone so even if the fediverse is taken over, I can build a layer on top of it that can’t be
Keep an eye out for Flemmy in the near future - it’ll take some time to get there, but I’m hoping I can get enough support to do this full time. All my life I’ve felt like as a species, we’re screwed, and there’s nothing I can do but watch - and for the first time, my skills and passions are aligned. If I can’t shift the course of history now, however slightly, I’ll just spend the rest of my life watching
I’m making an app that will hold their hands and offer options rather than asking for decisions. I want my mom and grandma to be able to use it, but I also am building the app I wanted for Reddit - I want lots of highly customized feeds that (at least try to) save your place, I want adaptive discovery and sorting algorithms, I want to do it without building a company that will steal it away from me, and I want the data to never leave my phone so even if the fediverse is taken over, I can build a layer on top of it that can’t be
Keep an eye out for Flemmy in the near future - it’ll take some time to get there, but I’m hoping I can get enough support to do this full time. All my life I’ve felt like as a species, we’re screwed, and there’s nothing I can do but watch - and for the first time, my skills and passions are aligned. If I can’t shift the course of history now, however slightly, I’ll just spend the rest of my life watching