Was gonna say this, too. I’ve known some people who assume what I’m saying before I’m done, and then go on to show they didn’t actually listen and didn’t grasp the point at all.
Don’t guess what people are trying to say. Listen to them. They’re telling you. You don’t have to guess. 😅
If you ever have to open a command prompt, you’ve already lost them.
I don’t really think you grasp the breadth and depth of what the federal government does.
Neither does the Trump administration 😏
Yeah that’s a good point. Maybe it’s too different for it to work. I maintain that complexity will continue to push people away, though. If instances are that different we might have better luck referring to them as their own sites. That would just increase the flocking to single mega instances though. The most important feature of any social media site is who’s on it.
Having to explain federation is kind of the issue in my opinion. This idea wouldn’t be to remove the normal sign up process, it would be a way to side step it entirely for those who don’t care about the technology aspect of it and just want to be part of the community.
If you want to pick your own instance or suggest one, that would still exist. This would just be an alternative. It would also help to avoid everyone gravitating towards the largest instance, because it would try to load balance people automatically.
I’m not a programmer so I can’t speak to how hard this is, but I think it would be a big asset to building user base if there was a neutral sign up website that wasn’t a specific instance. It would basically choose an instance for you automatically and skip that part. I figure there could be some list of general purpose instances compiled that are all fair game and the site would try to spread the load across instances.
Average user doesn’t care about federation, and all of that complexity is a big turn off. I know because I almost didn’t sign up myself because of that. Having to pick a team just to get in the door feels kinda bad.
I’ve seen a lot of very tech savvy people still using google and chrome to this day. It’s the top search engine. The majority of people use it, including pirates.
My wife and I like to joke that vegetables aren’t real and all of them are just something else in reality.
would you like to look at something on the screen in detail? That’s now part of the premium plan, sorry.