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A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it’s related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, KBin, etc).
This is not the place to gossip about other instances.
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I've always considered the federated stuff too clunky. Only data should be federated, presentation should be unified. As with newsgroups.
I’m of two minds. On one hand I agree, it’s gotta be dead simple. On the other hand I think the public is more capable than it seems. People figured out email and the mess that is Windows. The fediverse just feels like a lot because it’s new. Some better branding is in order though, like your example of not using the word “instance”.
I often think it would be better to obfuscate the federation aspect altogether. Most users don’t need to know or care that a post or user came from another instance. But I think that path will ultimately be more confusing than just having the small learning curve.
This is basically the "All" sort on lemmy isn't it? And since Lemmy devs are responsible for the algorithm that functionally determines what shows up there they have ultimate control over what rises to the top and what does not.