asudox @ Asudox @lemmy.world

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Why? That's really ineffective and just looks bad imo. That's just a solution to people linking instances to join instead of leading people to join-lemmy.org.

A default option is bad imo. We want a decentralized platform. Distribution will keep the fediverse alive and well. Maybe a dynamic "default" option would be one solution. One that just changes the default option to a different somewhat known instance once the current default option reaches a certain user count. For this to work, you'd need to lead people to join-lemmy.org.

That's what join-lemmy.org does. It asks 2 questions:

• What theme they are the most interested in
• What language they mainly use on the web

I never said "people who don't understand", I said "people who don't want to understand". I am satisfied as long as a newbie knows what the fediverse is, why it is here and what instances are. They are the basics, aren't they?

There's also no fix for the "onboarding problem". That "problem" is federation itself.

Naturally. This is the fediverse, if newbies don't want to understand how it works even a little bit, they shouldn't be here.

And lemmy.world won't shrink. I said "for the time being", not forever. If LW keeps growing rapidly without giving other instances a chance, then it won't be any different than Reddit.

If LW admins really care about the fediverse, they probably should close their registrations for the time being, otherwise every newbie will start joining LW because it is the biggest instance out there.

1. No. That's the beauty of federation. Lemmy is not centralized like Reddit. You don't need to be on lemmy.world to see things from it or from other instances like lemm.ee, lemmy.ml, ani.social, etc. There are exceptions though, for example lemmy.world might be defederated with X instance while some other instance might be federated with that instance X. So you wouldn't be able to see things from that instance X from lemmy.world but from some other instance that is federated with X.
2. Since Lemmy is not centralized, there's no "official" community (subreddits are called communities here) here. Your instance might have a meta instance community though.
3. There's nothing like that here, at least not builtin. You can easily code up some bot to implement it though. !asklemmy@lemmy.world had a bot do that once when the fediverse was being spammed by some group.

Note: Do keep in mind that you CANNOT bring your comments and post with you if you want to switch instances. Only subscribed communities and some account settings. There were some discussions about using DIDs and one other tech I forgot to make that possible, but it's not implemented yet.

Got it.

Oh great. So it preserves the order. Thanks.

You didn't miss it. I forgot to include it, sorry.

Via the API.

Quantum computers are undoubtedly the most interesting and new technology.

None. I mostly download and torrent music from wherever I can find with reasonable quality.

Not much. As long as she's a person with common sense and a bit of intelligence, I'm fine.

I doubt they would care enough for Java applets that died a long time ago to put "No Java" in the description

I agree. It feels nice to just have some random cat pop up randomly in my feed.

FlyingSquid seems to have alot of accounts on different instances

No Java?

They're better than passwords in that they really are phishing proof and well they are basically RSA key pairs that are generated, so they are naturally brute force resistant. Great for the majority because most people reuse their crappy password over and over again, ignorant of the fact that password managers exist just because they have to spend 10 seconds more to press buttons to generate a password and store them in the db. The tech is great as long as the user knows how to keep them safe.

HOWEVER: Since third party password managers (like Bitwarden, 1Pass, etc.) just recently started to provide support for passkeys, alot of people who wanted to use passkey on first release were locked into big tech bros like Google on Android and Apple on iOS' solutions. And well that's not good at all. The tech is great though, I'm all for it. You just need to know where to store them. Ideally, I'd store them offline on my device and that exists already but not on Linux (afaik) nor on Android are they a reality yet.

^{They definitely are not more than secure than my yubikey though.}