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  • Nice job articulating your arguments. Now that you’ve explained your stance, it can foster better discussion.

    Since this explanation is so far down the thread, I suggest editing one of your more top level comments to include these points for better engagement.

    I will say this: the whole point of Lemmy and federation is to have control. Each instance gets to choose what’s important for them. A singular UX experience isn’t possible by design. But that’s not to say there’s no room for improvement.



  • Why are you passing off the onus of proof to me or others in this thread? It’s your argument.

    Just google ‘Good UX principles’ and you’ll see Lemmy breaks so many of them

    No thanks, I’m also a decades long IT Professional and I’m not going to do that. It’s your argument so your burden of proof.

    Lemmy breaks basic UX principles the UX is bad on multiple levels

    Again, please feel free to cite specific examples.


  • I don’t have any data to back it up

    That was my point. A number of times in this thread, you’ve stated your opinion as “a fact” or expressed it as obviously correct. It’s possible to get your point across without the condescension and acknowledging it’s your opinion.

    I agree that the nature of federation on Lemmy and other federated social networks is complicated. Resolving that is no easy task. However, your stance in this post seems to be the burden of choosing your instance should be removed or streamlined by randomization. I personally disagree - while there is a hurdle to having to choose an instance and that is a barrier to entry, it’s also valuable in them learning that this isn’t just another platform under a single umbrella.







  • The downside to Keepass is it is not self hosted, as in it’s designed to run locally per device. Yes, you can put the database file on a network and have multiple clients from different operating systems access the database, but you will end up with collisions and database issues. Ask me how I know.

    Running cross platform Keepass (and it’s various forks) is absolutely doable, but it is not as seemless as BitWarden. I’m running self hosted VaultWarden and I’m hoping to run it for a long time as it’s much easier than Keepass.




  • they’ve got to make money somehow

    But they have been, and for years. All the years I’ve run a smartphone Google has harvested and profited from my data. From Gmail to Chrome (before I switched) to Maps, etc - they have profited from people’s data at scale. So the argument that they need to make money somehow falls flat for me.

    Also, if they charged like $2 a year to block ads, plenty of people would buy it. But like most things lately, the enshitification of our user experience continues. It’s not enough for companies like Google to “make money” - it’s never enough and their greed has no boundaries.

    That’s why you see people like us pushing back - enough is enough.