this post was submitted on 25 Aug 2023
97 points (100.0% liked)

Fediverse

17776 readers
48 users here now

A community dedicated to fediverse news and discussion.

Fediverse is a portmanteau of "federation" and "universe".

Getting started on Fediverse;

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
deadsuperhero@lemmy.ml
wakest@lemmy.ml
97
What do you think some of the fediverse's primary stumbling blocks are? (lemm.ee)
submitted 1 year ago by ALostInquirer@lemm.ee to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
58 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

For those that have poked around other fediverse stuff beyond Lemmy, and been around the spaces awhile, what's stuck out to you as stumbling blocks, or basic user experience fumbles? Which parts do you think may be technical, and which may be cultural?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

For me, aside from picking initially between kbin and Lemmy and then picking an instance (and the whole concept of instances), it was not having an algorithmically created feed. It took a bit to wrap my mind around since all of the social media apps and sites I was used to (and still use) provides this.

This is kind of an interesting one to me, not because I disagree or anything, but because at least personally, when I've tried to use corporate social media, I felt like I also had to do a lot of manual feed building/curation to get it to be worth anything. However, I do think where some of the algorithmic stuff helped a little was in the suggestions of similar or related pages/users, albeit somewhat rarely.

More than the algorithms it was simply the fact that it was a single platform where you knew they might be & so could search for them, so maybe it was a mixture of those details for you too?