• aeronmelon@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    You’re right, but there’s more to appreciate about needing to choose an instance.

    It’s like email. All email services work with all others, but the end user still needs to choose a good one. There are more than one "good one"s, and part of the decision is about personal taste.

    And sometimes you have to leave a bad provider for a better one. Look at my account, it’s brand new. Because lemm.ee has had one too many federation issues for my taste.

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      7 months ago

      Ok, so your argument is basically “Look at this unrelated service, that’s how it works too, so moving wrong with the current service except that I had to do the thing that prove that what you’re talking about would be better.”

      Eliminate the central authorities altogether, let people curate their feed so they don’t have to worry about someone else making choices about their experience.

      Someone could join Lemmy today and have no idea they’re missing out on a big part of the available content because they joined the wrong instance, they would then turn around and just go back to Reddit where they know everything is available and they’re in control of what they’re subscribed to and what users they want to block.