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I would love to follow communities and only see the posts but when you do, you see every single comment making it impossible to follow a community from there :(

A language is not a topic that's why it makes sense and rules on servers that are on your language (and probably your own country) probably will have rules more aligned with your vision too. It makes sense on a moderation point of view.

A server that is about technology or art, doesn't say anything about how they might allow their users to behave. I just think it's misleading and the focus of a server shouldn't be about things you like but the way you like to be treated and how they manage your data which is at the end what they handle.

I think it's a bad idea to have each server have one topic which I know is often how Fediverse is sold but I think it's not good.

I don't know you but I have more than one interest and I don't want a server to be about one interest and that's it. I want the server to be fair and have rules about discrimination and so on. I can choose the topics I want to follow thanks to federation that's the whole point, the server should focus on the moderation side.

Same as before: you have to take that into consideration only if you want. Probably you never cared at all when you signed to a new app in big corporation and just gave away all your data but now that there are options suddenly everyone cares and it's annoying.

This are important topics, it was time to take them seriously. This is precisely why federation is important - the instances and users can moderate, it's not a single organism that has absolute control over eveything.

Referencing Matrix when he says "why do my eyes hurt" just after waking from Matrix... It's the same here: we will all get use to have more freedom of choice, now it seems more complicated because we never had that freedom and never worried about a lot of topics that are important.

I mean it's really depressing even being in Europe honestly but at the same time it's a huge opportunity. It's time to take it :) Let's show them how decentralization AND open source can be a new standard! I'm seeing the same trend in Linux too and this is so important as well.

Also a lot of new projects to help decentralization are emerging, check https://spritely.institute/ which there's Christine Lemmer-Webber a co-author of the ActivityPub protocol :)

I agree with the whole thing but remember that the Fediverse as it grows it will face the same challenges as any other social media does when it grows. I 100% agree that it's important that social media has to be decentralized and away from corporations but as people join the Fediverse, corporations will pick up on that and I'm sure we will end up with private companies doing apps for the Fediverse that will contain algorithms and all that kind of stuff. (I mean you can already see threads which is federated with the Fediverse).

Having the Fediverse doesn't guarantee that everything will be nice and good (though it's a very important step) but the same that happens with e-mail nowadays with google that we are all almost using the same platform even though it is a decentralized system and it's not open source.

The Fediverse is decentralized AND open source nowadays but that doesn't mean it's how it will always be. I hope people remembers in the future that it's important to support the open source platforms we have in the early days and they don't jump ships when a private company opens a new fancy app. Let's remember the lessons we just learned and remember, we currently have a decentralized AND open source social media because we have a lot of people doing hard work on it, let's support them and educate people about the importance of the topic.

You can also follow a community from mstodon but it shows all the replies from all posts and it's very messy.

It's slower than fortress mode but the cool thing is to interact with known entities that you encountered during your fort or you can use it to get a feeling of the world more closely and then make a fort on the area.

I think if dwarf fortress was just this mode you would prefer things like caves of qud which is more polished in that regard but you don't get the fort interaction you have in dwarf fortress.

I mean the level of interaction is as deep and convoluted as you expect from a mode in dwarf fortress.

This platforms are really new and it's hard to switch a social media account when you have a following. You have to decide by yourself if this is a fight you are willing to take. I think the best way to do it is to slowly switch and post both places for some time which might be a long time still.

This also happens for the consumers, if there's no content to consume it's hard to switch. That's why we need content creators to also slowly switch. I try to open first the alternatives and if I find there's not much content I check back on reddit but I try to not use it if I don't need to. This takes more effort than just ignoring the whole fediverse thing but I think it's something worth fighting for. With the current situation I think it has become very obvious that social media (or to put it in another way: how humans communicate with one another) shouldn't be controlled by a private company.

I use firefox and neither have this issue. Check for some of your extensions that might be causing that!

I think one of the biggest barriers of the fediverse is decision paralysis.

So stop looking around! Go to https://lemmy.world/ and join :)

If you want to expend extra time, there are more servers and you can join a different one, if you are undecisive join the one above :)

It's the same as with Lemmy, you join a server and you see practically all of them.