i am a new user on the fediverse but what is the thing that in Big Social
but the fediverse is not prepared to replace
Tech enthusiasts are usually the early adopters. They’re okay with a bit of fiddling to get stuff working.
Normies are not. That’s where you’ll see some conflict.
Normies. I want decentralized social media to grow but to do that it needs people who aren’t self-selecting.
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“Success” by which I mean a massive influx of millions of users: IMO it’s kind of in a sweet spot because it’s not as easy to use as most social media, so a lot of the dumber people just don’t come here because they can’t figure it out (for example, they think there’s nothing here because they don’t understand the filter/how instances work).
If things are made too easy, they’ll start showing up in droves and they’ll bring tons of reddit’s bullshit over here. More bots, spammers, scammers, malicious hackers, and trolls pretty much everywhere and the mod tools on Lemmy aren’t terribly advanced, which is one of the main forum platforms in the Fediverse.
I feel this is a good thing, kinda like linux, I got into it and I love it, at the beginning I wanted for linux to grow and grow in popularity to become huge and widely used, but then i realized this would also mean being on the sights of the big corporations controlling the market right now and goverments, and it may start to get regulated more or some bullshit they will cook up to hurt it and the people who use it to gain back the market share lost. I do want both linux and lemmy to grow more, but up to a point so they stay safe.
Success.
With success come the bots, trolls, and buyouts. All the big platforms started as places people liked to be. The enshittification always came after the success.
Fedi was built on the same premise that makes all tech products fail:
The idea that people will behave themselves and act in good faith.
They won’t, and they don’t. And it only takes a handful of bad actors to ruin it for everyone else.
Spam and bots.
The legislation trying to mandate proof of identity from all users of all social media.
We’d need to diversify the locations of Fediverse servers so that there would be a place to easily migrate to if a server suddenly is forced to implement this demand – basically meaning it needs to be closed down.
we havent solved the ‘new user’ -> instance’ problem
its hard to explain to people the concept that the server you login to is just the home base of an entire network. explaining the dance of instance interoperability immediately tunes out potential new users.
the fediverse isnt really open to newcomers… they tend to land on the big ones like .world and then slowly warm up to the idea theyre communicating with many remote servers… if they stick around
Dealing with the avalanche of bot accounts.
Seen around the mod chat that instances with signup approvals are getting slammed with marketing people vometing llm bots everywhere.Spammers and other nefarious actors.
There’s a lot of trust built into federation.
assuming if there is a exodus from reddit, the instances are not prepared for a large influx of people. cue the last big instance, there wasnt enough people maintaing the instance. its not likely going to happen since people will be scattered to different sites anyways,.
There’s no way the moderation would be able to keep up.
They can come, but they won’t stay. Lemmy on my PC is utterly borked. There’s not another site I know of with so many bugs.
Then they’ll get an eyeful of what a new user sees and bail. My god, it took me two weeks of non-stop blocking to get a start on the furry porn and little girls in lingerie (anime as some call it 🙄).
