▲ 210 ▼ Your explanation of federation that it "works like email" will be misunderstood (transfem.social) submitted 2 years ago by CyberTailor@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world 134 comments fedilink hide all child comments The linked post shows how most non-tech people's understanding of email is very very different from most of the people here.
[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) I think admins choose, but tbh reddit is also pretty algorithmic these days permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) But they should still see content, even if they don't understand anything. The only way they won't is if the admins decided users shouldn't see anything without first subscribing to something, which is a terrible way to ease people in to the service. There needs to be a default feed so normies can use it too! permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child) Unless an instance enrolls in Lemmy-federate, the default behavior is that a user, even on the /all view, will only see local communities, and outside communities that another local user has sought out and subscribed to. If a newbie joins a small instance and doesn't know how to seek out communities that interest them with lemmyverse.net, they would likely have a very small range of content in their feed. Lemmy-federate helps by auto subscribing an instance to participating communities, seeding a wide range of content immediately. A large instance would offer a good experience either way, but would encourage centralization without Lemmy-federate existing. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) Why on Earth would a newbie join a small instance? How would they even find out about one? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) Assuming they search Lemmy, and one of top results is the join-lemmy page (second result for me, below Lemmy.world), the server recommendation tool can suggest small instances with only a couple hundred members. For instance, if one selects Art as the topic and English as the language. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* Oof. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) But they should still see content, even if they don't understand anything. The only way they won't is if the admins decided users shouldn't see anything without first subscribing to something, which is a terrible way to ease people in to the service. There needs to be a default feed so normies can use it too! permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child) Unless an instance enrolls in Lemmy-federate, the default behavior is that a user, even on the /all view, will only see local communities, and outside communities that another local user has sought out and subscribed to. If a newbie joins a small instance and doesn't know how to seek out communities that interest them with lemmyverse.net, they would likely have a very small range of content in their feed. Lemmy-federate helps by auto subscribing an instance to participating communities, seeding a wide range of content immediately. A large instance would offer a good experience either way, but would encourage centralization without Lemmy-federate existing. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) Why on Earth would a newbie join a small instance? How would they even find out about one? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) Assuming they search Lemmy, and one of top results is the join-lemmy page (second result for me, below Lemmy.world), the server recommendation tool can suggest small instances with only a couple hundred members. For instance, if one selects Art as the topic and English as the language. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* Oof. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child) Unless an instance enrolls in Lemmy-federate, the default behavior is that a user, even on the /all view, will only see local communities, and outside communities that another local user has sought out and subscribed to. If a newbie joins a small instance and doesn't know how to seek out communities that interest them with lemmyverse.net, they would likely have a very small range of content in their feed. Lemmy-federate helps by auto subscribing an instance to participating communities, seeding a wide range of content immediately. A large instance would offer a good experience either way, but would encourage centralization without Lemmy-federate existing. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) Why on Earth would a newbie join a small instance? How would they even find out about one? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) Assuming they search Lemmy, and one of top results is the join-lemmy page (second result for me, below Lemmy.world), the server recommendation tool can suggest small instances with only a couple hundred members. For instance, if one selects Art as the topic and English as the language. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* Oof. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) Why on Earth would a newbie join a small instance? How would they even find out about one? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) Assuming they search Lemmy, and one of top results is the join-lemmy page (second result for me, below Lemmy.world), the server recommendation tool can suggest small instances with only a couple hundred members. For instance, if one selects Art as the topic and English as the language. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* Oof. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) Assuming they search Lemmy, and one of top results is the join-lemmy page (second result for me, below Lemmy.world), the server recommendation tool can suggest small instances with only a couple hundred members. For instance, if one selects Art as the topic and English as the language. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* Oof. permalink fedilink source parent