The apps are certainly in need of all the help they can get. I have Lemur and Jerboa, and they're both janky as all heck.
Kbin is very young software. The dev was doing really well, then /u/spez dumped 10-bajillion users on it. I'm surprised the servers are still operating.
Lemmy's a lot more mature, but it's never been tested with this kind of traffic. It's impressive that any of these sites are still going. I'd give it at least another month until things settle, adjustments are made, instances update, et c. et c.
I don't think anyone can tell where we're going. Mastodon.social was the largest instance by far for some time, then at the deluge, it splintered.
Part of the reason for Mastodon to fracture is specialization - each instance does something unique. Maybe Lemmy will do the same, maybe not.
But if we end up with 3 primary instances, it's still decentralized - I think the most useful feature of Lemmy isn't that we're spread out, it's that we could be.
More like a teenager with their first job.
This week, Lemmy becomes a man.
In all fairness to the devs, Lemmy's had a dozen users + the devs until now, then /u/spez pulls his stunt, and we're looking at how it operates with 0.0000000000001% of Reddit, which is apparently 20-bajillion people.
There's a Github issue about it here.
There's a lot to answer on what exactly that would mean. Would you be able to edit old posts from the new instance? What if the new instance already defederated from the old? Would you retain the same username? Or are you simply getting a list of subscriptions, and copying them across?
Users are unable to block whole instances
Sounds like a good feature, though not exactly a 'disadvantage', without a comparison. Is the comparison Mastodon? Reddit?
Lemmy is one of the least privacy friendly service I have ever stumbled upon
Could you expand on this? Is it just the deletion problem?
There is no possibility to migrate or backup your subscribed/favorited stuff or even move it to another instance (which somehow is possible on Mastodon),
This took a while to get on Mastodon. Remember, the data's not necessarily stored in a usable format (users don't want a load of postgres in their download), and the devs need to be sure that nobody else's data will accidentally get in there.
Kbin is new, the distinctions between Magazine and micro-blogging creates an extra barrier to understand the system, the few instances are straining under the load, and it's very much in beta.
New users won't be terribly forgiving, so I feel like Lemmy's the better option.
I never understood why questionable views from software devs might be a problem.
It's not like I can only use software made by people who don't eat meat, and everyone's doctors are partially informed by science performed by the Nazis.
I have no idea what kind of world these people think they're living in, as if everything were developed with shared values, and a pure conscience, until Lemmy came along.
Nah. I want to defederate from people sharing racial slurs, because I cba with them. If they don't consider that a 'consequence' then I don't really care.
I definitely don't want consequences for people sharing negative opinions about governments.
So I guess I just want freedom of speech + personal curation.
I still feel like I need a new term for this. Yet another word co-opted by idiots.
The internet's fine - the web's the problem.
ssh, Call of Duty, email, random voice-call software on strange ports - all of them work fine. People have problems with websites.
Plenty of websites of course are fine, the problems present when people use search engines and find a bunch of guff written by a bot, Paywalls, and sign-up screens.
They say the best way to predict the future is to create it, so if you want to help there, 'make good art', write and share good content, don't feed the machine. Sounds like you're doing that already if you're on Lemmy.
And if you want to check out a quieter corner of the internet, where things aren't all in-your-face-sing-up-click-here-now-NOW-DOIT...download the lagrange browser and check out Gemini. It's a mostly plain-text protocol, where people read and write, and sometimes share whacky music.