Well most of the complexity would be hidden. For example the Mastodon mobile client hides much of it. You can even sign up for a server there.
My main concern is the overlap between lemmy instances, meaning me and my mate can be looking at for example a channel named ‘news’ and see different contents because we are on different instances. So you either subscribe to all news channels on all major instances and see lots of duplicated posts, or miss out on some posts.
Yeah there has been much debate going on about that here
I don't think its naiv. I think its more realistic. I like most about the article that it puts the activitypub-protocol front and center. This is mainly what made me view the fediverse differently. And that therefore power dynamics will probably shift in the next years away from Mastodon.
There is a eurovision song context, where each country of europe makes one song for. There is a vote. One country wins. Huge fun. Now, if we would do the same thing for the fediverse: which song would you chose?
I have to switch between subscribed/local/all feed all the time. That's why I proposed a mixed-feed, which merges Subscribed/Local/All feed according to users settings so you don't have to switch all the time.
I think it would be better to add the option to mark posts as "sensitive" or "not save for work", which are then blurred for the user and appear when clicked on.
The rest should be up to moderation and everything else is just solutionism.
Sounds interesting. But it sounds like some centralized AI is in the background managing all the dezentralized communities. I'm a bit doubtful of that - why not let each community have its own AI?
Steampunk is not necessarily dystopian its alternate reality. Cyberpunk is dystopian. I guess the main reason is because it sounds cooler. Also utopians have kind of run out of favour.
I think it shouldnt ban companies per se. But yeah, if its all build up on open source software and a more healthy culture it will all be for the better. Thats why I wrote "better" silicon valley
You cannot win people solely through rational arguments. Stories can help here especially if the Fediverse is still small. It could also motivate people already in the Fediverse to keep supporting it
Well most of the complexity would be hidden. For example the Mastodon mobile client hides much of it. You can even sign up for a server there.
Yeah there has been much debate going on about that here