My account was shut down without notice a few weeks ago. The server providing my account shut down. All comments, saved links and history was gone.
How do you explain this to a non-technical user while reassuring that this is a great system?
this post was submitted on 29 Aug 2025
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"you know how when a corner shop closes in town, you're still able to go to a different store, but if safeway has driven all the other stores out of business and then shuts down you'll fucking starve to death?"
A little pain in exchange for longtime gain?
Oh no, TIL that the Fediverse is "exercise" - no wonder most Westerners avoid us! 🤪
It's crazy to me that whatever program you used to make that account on that server didn't automatically force a backup location on the same device where the account is used. On Android, some folder. On desktop, some folder. And it's crazy to me that we can't just import all of our votes, comments, and posts in that backup to another account on the same device or another.
That is a terrible system. No answers from me. Just questions
I have to say this is my experience too. I'm a boomer and whatever stumble upon here is purely coincidental.
https://lemmyverse.net/communities
Type a word for something you might be interested in, and if there's a community it should come up there. The main problem is still that the fediverse doesn't have enough people to support niche (or even kinda niche) interests yet
But you are here all the same. We appreciate you!
I find it is a lot easier to search through communities and instances on a desktop. Mobile is clunky even through some of the apps that have been developed are pretty good.
Tbf, PieFed's categories of communities and user-customizeable and shareable Feeds greatly simplify the UX in working with communities (ironically more so on a mobile than desktop, surely an oversight that will be fixed soon).
It is complicated, and I like a little barrier to entry.
It's like needing to know the password before being let into the treehouse.
"Fuck spez!"
"Yes, yes, come in, come in!!"
Yes me too, try PeerTube it is even more complicated.
Oh man it really is too. I spent the better part of a day trying to find a good instance to join to post and I couldn’t figure out the various keywords and stuff; every time I thought I found a fit it was basically the opposite of what I needed. Then I gave up and stopped even wanting to do it.
Yet they have an email provider.
That's just laziness/willful ignorance. The fediverse is just spicy emails
After you block a few hundred groups of anime and nonsense it’s surprisingly enjoyable.
Block the ani.social instance and it takes away 90% of the anime groups.
HOW MANY MORE MOES DO WE NEED???
Who is moe and why is her midriff so popular???
At least 1 more than the fucking aigen communities, I swear I have to block a new one every week.
What if I told you at least 50% of the moe communities content are aigen 🥹
Just means I have blocked them! If it has ai in its name or only posts ai generated content, its gone (except fuck_ai, for obvious reasons)
IDK, lets keep going until we find out!
Sorry about that, some people don't know ani.social exists and create comms on the wrong instances. They're supposed to show up in my local feed, but now they're in yours and you don't even appreciate them!
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I kinda love that people are willing to deal with these various technicalities and unknowns as a worthwhile compromise as long as it's not [input any walled-garden here]
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This is why federation is not the solution to centralized services. The solution is called decentralized, or P2P. I don’t even understand why ActivityPub got so popular, when it is one of the worst protocols in terms of communication. But whatever. I’m still here. Because it is still better than Reddit
Federation is decentralized. I feel like some major structural issues would exist with p2p, like would I only see posts from people actively online while I am online?
What other protocols do you think would suit the needs of a decentralized social media better?
You would still need servers to connect to. Take a look how Solana works - the same concept (with or without the blockchain) would work for social media.
Unfortunately there is no really good protocol. ActivityPub has the purpose of making things interconnected between different worlds. Like, Lemmy with Mastadon. But for that you have to find a common denominator, stripping away all the good stuff, for a feature that no one really wants.
So if there are still servers, that sounds like it's not peer to peer, right?
I am reading up on Solana a bit, but not really finding answers as to what functionally makes it a better protocol. Naturally being a blockchain most of the information is focused on trustless monetary transactions and all the scams that been involved. For what is novel I'm seeing a "leader" server that validates the order of events that as a role can be passed between theoretical similar servers of sufficient hardware? I guess I don't think of super strict chronology as a desperate need for social media. So is the benefit you're looking for in the smart contracts?
Further I would argue that it is underutilized, but the idea of seamless inter-connectivity is a super power tool of a set of social media platforms. And ultimately there is nothing that forces a particular platform to limit itself to the bounds of mastodon, the bones of activity pub are incredible versatile by my understanding. What do you see as the good stuff that is stripped away?
yeah pretty much
@threeduck@aussie.zone you're getting famous
Fedi-famous (the best kinda currently)
Ascending among such legends like The Picard Maneuver, SatansMaggotyCumFart and Nicole, the Fediverse Chick!
Leaving out our boy Stamets and Flying Squid (on hiatus IIRC) smh
I settled on three names because I would get a "you forgot about X" response no matter what =P
Kolanaki... Munted Crocodile...
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