umean2me

I think it’s a valid criticism that should be welcomed. You could make this argument for any company when they make a bad decision.

“Oh well you trusted this company blindly so why are you upset and criticizing this design choice you don’t agree with.”

I also am not convinced a criticism is less meaningful if it’s the minority opinion. Many such cases in the world where the minority opinion is proven to be better for the majority.

In what way

You’re probably right tbh

I honestly don’t understand point 1. no matter how much people say it.

Maybe I’m naive because it wasn’t confusing to me personally, but it is only one extra step to create an account. When people explain the Fediverse to new people they compare it to e-mail anyway, which basically has the exact same sign-up structure. The only difference to me is the way it is advertised. Nobody in general says “you need to join e-mail”, it’s usually “join GMail” or “join Yahoo”. I don’t know how it would be solved without detracting from the “choose the instance that is right for you” experience though, since the instances with the most support and funding will obviously hold the most influence (as we currently see with lemmy.world and lemmy.ml, not to mention pixelfed.social).

IDK maybe I’m wrong, lmk, but I don’t think choosing an instance is all the friction it’s said to be.

The big instances are definitely slower though.