The fediverse is about options. If you don’t like how someone else runs their platform or community you can create your own. It’s awesome because you don’t get locked into one platform. And in the future I think we will see more big companies and organisations running their own stuff. But I agree that at the moment it is not what “normal people” are looking for and it will take quite some time until it develops. But to be fair the same was the case for reddit.

I have that too and sometimes it helps to spread your legs wide and keep your upper body upright instead of hunching over. You can also swap between the two positions since eachbis hard to do for a long time.

Wie immer erfahre ich von wichtigen Geschehnissen in der Welt zu erst durch MaiMais bei Lemmy.

thanks I won’t do that 'cause it’s sus

Same with the only exception being Obsidian at the moment and only because it saves all the data as plain text files and images locally in a folder structure.

Kann gar nicht sein. Hab gerade nur zufällig draufgeguckt und direkt nen Beluga XL gespottet der über uns geflogen ist.

Yeah it was in a store in my city and originally the price was double that which was still very good. But they had a sale since they were probably wanting to get rid of stuff and everything was 50% off.

Can confirm. Of course you can’t really expect to always find the thing you are looking for, especially if you need a certain size. But I got lucky and found nice quality jeans on a very good deal for 9€.

Recently had to help my mom figure out her new internet setup. She wanted to keep her old phone number but it was not carried over to the new provider. My guess is she said that she wanted to keep it while ordering the new one but never followed any of the steps they gave her to make that work. So we called them and it was crazy how she was unable to explain to them what her current situation is and what needs to be fixed. Claiming that “nothing works” even though the internet works just fine and the only problem is the phone number. Also not really looking at the emails they send her and following the steps to activate the online service center where she could manage this stuff on her own.

Later I showed her that the laptop she got from work is able to connect to her new router wirelessly and does not have to be connected via cable. She already uses another laptop and her phone over wifi. Apparently she just has no interest in understanding how any of the internet systems work.

Ist das eine Eigenkreation oder gibt es da wo das her kommt noch mehr davon?

Ah ok. Ich benutze Lemmy seit ner Woche mit der Photon UI und der Button fehlt da anscheinend. Hab gerade auch mal bei anderen alternativen UIs geguckt und die haben den Button anscheinend fast alle nicht. Nur mlmym hat sowas. Denke das sollte man in Zukunft vielleicht mal ändern. In der Eternity App sehe ich auch keinen Button.

Woran sieht man das?

What I’m trying to say is that every social network has it’s quirks that you just need to learn. The willingness to learn also depends on how attractive the platform is. With time i see no reason for lemmy to not grow like reddit did.

If you just google “Lemmy” one of the first results is https://join-lemmy.org/ where you are directed to an instance that suits you. Far from perfect but Lemmy is still young.

People probably don’t even really need to understand federation. They just need sane defaults to get started and work from there.

The only additional step you have on lemmy is choosing an instance and honestly it does not even matter that much which you choose. I’m not saying it’s trivial but it is nothing that is inherently more difficult.

Reddit was really strange compared to everything else a few years ago. It only appears easy now because we are familiar with the concept of subreddits now.

Yes, especially with Ramstein located in Germany being an important global hub for the US.

I remember joining reddit when it had the old interface and thinking that it is super unintuitive and complicated compared to all other social media. This didn’t stop reddit from growing and i don’t think lemmy will be restricted by this in the long run. People generally are just not aware of the fediverse and how it works yet but they will get used to it.

There is also Gigaset who claim that their smartphones are “Made in Germany” but I am not entirely sure to what exactly this covers.