[-] DaughterOfMars@beehaw.org 8 points 11 months ago

This is really cool! But -- and I mean no disrespect -- it's not really Tarot (or at least not the Major Arcana). Tarot is about symbology, whereas these cards are akin to the Minor Arcana royalty -- Page, Knight, Queen, and King. The art of the Major Arcana is specifically designed to contain certain symbols which can be used for readings. Of course, there are plenty of decks out there that do not conform to this, but they aren't particularly useful as Tarot. It would be really cool to recreate this symbology as Major Arcana cards in the context in Elden Ring though!

[-] DaughterOfMars@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago

You're pointing out the exact problem that I am describing: Users will naturally flock to the largest, most stable instances, thus centralizing lemmy and removing the benefit of federation.

[-] DaughterOfMars@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago

Thank you for that insightful comment. You've really addressed my point in its entirety, and thoroughly proven me to be a dullard. I submit to your vast intelligence.

[-] DaughterOfMars@beehaw.org 12 points 1 year ago

Your work is the bee's knees!

[-] DaughterOfMars@beehaw.org 16 points 1 year ago

In general the owners of beehaw are taking this whole lemmy thing much more seriously, and I appreciate it.

[-] DaughterOfMars@beehaw.org 16 points 1 year ago

It won't get more users if it continues to be difficult to use.

[-] DaughterOfMars@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

That's the issue though. Without a locked identity on an instance, people will naturally choose the option they think is least likely to disappear in a few weeks.

[-] DaughterOfMars@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

Notice how everyone pretty much uses gmail? If gmail goes down you lose access to everything, but it won't because it's google and they have money to throw at problems. That's not true for Lemmy (and we don't want that because it leads to Reddit 2.0 where all power is centralized).

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by DaughterOfMars@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

In my opinion, there are two big things holding Lemmy back right now:

  1. Lemmy needs DIDs.

    No, not dissociative identity disorder, Decentralized Identities.

    The problem is that signing up on one instance locks you to that instance. If the instance goes down, so does all of your data, history, settings, etc. Sure, you can create multiple accounts, but then it's up to you to create secure, unique passwords for each and manage syncing between them. Nobody will do this for more than two instances.

    Without this, people will be less willing to sign up for instances that they perceive "might not make it", and flock for the biggest ones, thus removing the benefits of federation.

    This is especially bad for moderators. Currently, external communities that exist locally on defederated instances cannot be moderated by the home-instance accounts. This isn't a problem of moderation tooling, but it can be (mostly*) solved by having a single identity that can be used on any instance.

    *Banning the account could create the same issue.

  2. Communities need to federate too.

    Just as instances can share their posts in one page, communities should be able to federate with other, similar communities. This would help to solve the problem of fragmentation and better unify the instances.

Obviously there are plenty of bugs and QoL features that could dramatically improve the usage of Lemmy, but these two things are critical to unification across decentralized services.

What do you think?

EDIT: There's been a lot (much more than I expected) of good discussion here, so thank you all for providing your opinions.

It was pointed out that there are github issues #1 and #2 addressing these points already, so I wanted to put that in the main post.

[-] DaughterOfMars@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

Yesss, if we're going to make lemmy anywhere as useful as reddit was, it needs to have user reviews.

[-] DaughterOfMars@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago

c/BoysSupportBoys 😎

[-] DaughterOfMars@beehaw.org 16 points 1 year ago

WitchesVsPatriarchy?

[-] DaughterOfMars@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago

I think WorkReform is a better name personally.

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