I’m fairly new to the Fediverse, and I’d like to share my onboarding experience. Personally, I appreciate the concept of decentralization and the community-driven aspect of Fediverse. I’ve used Mastodon and Lemmy, based on ActivityPub, for a while:

  1. I find it difficult to get all the updates I need on a particular instance, and except for a few very large instances, most others appear quite quiet and like the Internet ten years ago.

  2. The content and style of each instance tend to be quite diverse. To find someone to follow, I must switch between different instances with lengthy domains.

  3. Fediverse isn’t truly decentralized; instances operate under the will of server owners, who can ban and remove content as they please.

These reasons prompted me to explore more decentralized networks, I mean truly decentralized networks, such as Nostr.

However, creating a Nostr account and saving the Recovery Phrases is challenging (I lost my first Nostr account due to the loss of Recovery Phrases). And generally speaking, the user experience on Nostr is much worse than Mastodon, full of scam and ads.

I believe people should leave Twitter due to shadowbans and robots and Facebook due to privacy concerns, but I’m struggling to choose a platform to migrate to. Each has its drawbacks, making it difficult to decide.

I’d love to hear your opinions on this.

  • madcaesar@lemmy.world
    244·
    7 months ago

    Right, but the algorithms that other social media sites use are designed to drive engagement, NOT to help you find things you like.

    They want you angry and/or scared and/or jealous so you post, rage argue.

    I know it may feel worse, but less content, less clickbait is better for us and our mental health.

    I didn’t even realise how much raging I was doing on reddit. And for what? To argue with right wing dipshits or bots or trolls, so reddit’s numbers can go up and they can sell more ads.

    Fuck algorithms and fuck rage bait.

    • jeebus@kbin.social
      4·
      7 months ago

      100 percent. I still use reddit but comment very infrequently. If I open a thread and see vile comments I leave, most times I don’t open the comments at all. I am glad reddit bo longer has a strong hold over me.