Lots of people asking questions about the fediverse over at /r/fediverse

[spaduf@slrpnk.net]

Fedi observer does something like this.

[blaze@feddit.org]

random (maybe based on geo ip) Lemmy server.

Random servers usually give lackluster experiences: https://lemmy.world/post/24220536

[blaze@feddit.org]

Warframe

Just checked about https://dormi.zone/, good to see it's still around

[asudox@discuss.tchncs.de]

As the author said in the website, saying a platform is open source when you haven't even released the source is nothing but wrong.

And that is not the only thing he has done it seems.

[spaduf@slrpnk.net]

Yeah well maybe they should come here.

That's the idea!

“just go on lemmy brah”

This works. Please do it politely.

[rozz@lemmy.sdf.org]

I miss a lot of the niche communities of reddit that still had engagement. Lemmy doesn't have all that I used to have, but I decided to join anyway. Not everyone will do that, and like you said that makes the resistance to change even stronger.

[blaze@feddit.org]

It's fine to use both, most people do

[rozz@lemmy.sdf.org]

There are plenty of older folks here, he was just barely relevant as it was.

[torfdot0@lemmy.world]

Joining the fediverse isn’t hard. If you can’t figure out the onboarding process, it’s because you were looking for a reason to not join.

[rikudou@lemmings.world]

Many of the points are bullshit and that's without even having any context, it's evident from the posts themselves.

Like the part where he allegedly "threatened legal action" - all he was saying is that outside fedi/oss that would mean a legal action, sounds like pointing out the advantages of oss/fedi, not threatening a legal action.

[rozz@lemmy.sdf.org]

Yeah if you want to that's fine. I choose not to.

[drunemeton@lemmy.world]

That’s okay Dad! I’m sure that one from 2007 is gonna kill….

[lost_my_mind@lemmy.world]

Nah. 2007 was the year "The Big Bang Theory" began airing. Clearly not a good year for comedy.

Bananza!

[mothmandelorian@lemmy.world]

A huge barrier for some is picking the instance and figuring which community they should follow.

[mothmandelorian@lemmy.world]

I thought it was sh.itjust.works

[openstars@piefed.social]

I see that hexbear.net, lemmygrad.ml, and Lemmy.ml are all recommendations there. So there might be a problem with that plan... They hate the West, whereas people in Reddit are FROM the West, and overall even if they join Lemmy, I cannot imagine them remaining here for very long.

I almost quit Lemmy after even just a couple of mere discussions with people on those instances - I sure as fuck would not have stuck around if my entire instance was surrounded by them!

Would YOU join Truth.Social, the Alt-Right network? Well, here at Lemmy, we are the Alt-Left one. It is zero surprise to me at all that centrists on Reddit are not desiring to come to this place that is so highly unwelcoming to them anyone who does not use Linux btw.

[forrgott@lemm.ee]

Wow, that's a dumb argument. I don't have the slightest clue how it works, but I'm here!

[melodiousfunk@slrpnk.net]

You are not alone.

[melodiousfunk@slrpnk.net]

Hell, I think domain names other than lemmy.xxx is confusing some people.

This. Techies know custom domains are a thing. A LOT of people are going to look askance at anything that isn't among the most common TLDs. I mean, lemmy.zip is kinda funny. But it also screams "don't click me, zip files from an unknown source are dangerous!"

...and now I'm having intrusive thoughts about exe being a TLD. I'm-a go lay down until the voices stop.

[fartswithanaccent@fedia.io]

Can someone highlight the salient points from all that? What's his deal?