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Yeah. I switched to free weights last week in prep for not being able to access any of the machines at the fitness centre.

At least the running lanes at the track usually stay empty. I needed to work on my cardio more, anyway.

If you just gave them the box, they would ignore it just to spite you.

No one is off-put by the realization. Just the attitude the post represents.

Ni, but the UX is shit, and the value proposution is so poorly thought out that you can't really sell people on it who aren't already ready to buy in.

Everyone makes the same mistake: Diminish the home instance, paper over the heterogeneous nature of things, and try to make it look like centeralized social media. It breaks the user experience.

My analigy:

You have a Reddit account. You recently bought a Honda Civic, and know there's a web forum for civic owners over there, called hondacivicforum. You would like to participate in it.

You can just subscribe to the forum topics you care about from your Reddit account. No need to create a new account.

Also, you have family on Facebook that posts updates and photos and whatnot. You can follow them, too, and reply to their posta without needing a Facebook account.

You use Reddit. You can interact with content outaide of Reddit from Reddit.

Tada.

There's no reason you couldn't do this with a network of Lemmy, mbin, NodeBB, or even Friendica wrbsites

Presumably for the same reason you're on a federated forum-like platform: to have your posts syndicated to other websites for easier discovery, and to comment on posts from other websites without needing abother account?

Lemmy is a failure at being like centralized social media, just like I'm a failure at being an athlete. It's no more built to do that than I am.

I get that many folks around here don't care for it, but Beehaw is a better model for this space. If people started treating the fedeverse as a Local+ framework, and treated the websites as the fundamental building blocks af the fediverse, and not just weird dangling tails on the ends of things, the experience would be significantly better. But none y'all want to do that, because that means leaving the mental model of centralization at the door.

Lemmy is not a forum, though, any more than Mastodon is. It's a totally different, if relates, form factor and provises a radically different user experience.

Why is it a silly thing to do? A non-federating lemmy instance is just another content aggregator site like Reddit.

In many ways, it's a better experience than federated Lemmy. It's just harder to recruit members.

They're not.

Who is stopping them now? Because if you say "the police", you're going to have to cite some sources. They not only don't stop anyone from being raped, they routinely side with the rapists, or even employ them directly.