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The problem is that the fediverse has genuine usability problems. Even from the perspective of a technical person. I am a sysadmin, and i self host a hilarious amount of things for no reason. Yet even i find the verse frustrating. Discoverability is near non existent, searching is hard, many instances just have duplicate content for popular topics, people don't understand how federation works for the main feed so you get times where stuff like that instance that is only for women pops up on a bunch of different instances Main feed and you have to deal with all the "shutup man this isn't for you!" And then of course there's always the which one do I even make my account on and then even after you do select one there's no guarantee it won't shut down at some random point and you'll be forced to migrate etc.
I've been on lemmy for a while and i still struggle to find content i want sometimes, but things like bluesky? It's easy, i found what i wanted easily and the algorithm picked up on what i liked and what i didn't and brought me more of what i wanted.
And the big problem with open source Alternatives and the fediverse is that instead of acknowledging that these are issues that need addressing and usability could be improved. They will instead tell you that it's your fault and you should give up all of those nice interactions for the sake of being decentralized. It's up to you to put in the effort to search every instance ever and find the content you want and bring it all together, it's up to you to migrate as needed and deal with other things caused by the decentralization. I just want to find some nice art, talk about some interesting Tech stuff and avoid politics to relax. Bluesky and even to some degree reddit let's me do this easily, lemmy makes it difficult.
Other people have mentioned it, but I'll mention it too because it's such an awesome feature. Piefed idebtifies duplicate posts across the fediverse and presents a combined comment section for them. It's amazing at tackling the duplicate content and endless cross-posts issue.
And while that's nice, and i will try it. it just highlights another usability problem. Fragmentation, which client should I use? Will that continue to be maintained? Nope it died well time to switch to another one I guess. Lots of problems like that across all decentralized platforms not just lemmy
That was true for Reddit too, clients came and went away
Yes but there was always an official one even though it was complete dog shit garbage that didn't matter to the average person that's what they are going to use. They don't care nor think about alternatives. It's easy to forget what the masses think about especially in places like this.
But that's not really the case with decentralized platforms there are a ton of different clients none of them are technically official and pretty much all of them is missing something it's just a matter of what's each one missing. And thats enough to kill usability for most average people
Voyager can be that default client
Very true, but that will fade as platforms mature