Personally I think that if there was like a central link/front end to access everything and then have each user be able to have a recommended list of instances/hosts to access would be a more user friendly solution and a better solution for search engines. I know the fediverse is about decentralization but having a central front end and decentralized back end seems easier for new users. And then for the back ended hosting aspect each host would be able to manually pick which instances or communities to host and mirror. I’d like to hear your ideas since I have no idea what I’m talking about.
Give it time I would say. Nobody cares about not having a central mail index, because everyone is used to how email works.
Now with Lemmy we are changing the central approach of reddit to a decentralized one like email. It’s not a big problem if you ask me, it’s only that people don’t like change. Still, I think it’s crucial that we stay with the decentralized approach instead of creating the same problems we had with reddit/facebook/twitter and the likes.
We did it the wrong way nummerous times. This time, let’s be patient and please do it the right way for once.
And don’t forget that the big corporations are already trying to undermine the new approach. Look at meta and threads for example.
Some mailing lists have an archive page. Could be useful.
Sure and there are pages helping you find communities, but there isn’t that one central instance that works as a frontend to all the decentralized content.
I really wish to get a solution that builds of a free protocol, not on a single centrally managed instance of something that gives disproportional power to the instance hoster.
I fucking love the idea of activity pub. Everything can talk to everything and offer different features for different requirements like forums, short messages or even video distribution.
Internet, as much as anyone acts like it’s not, is in its childs steps. We should really make sure in 100 years it’s a communication tool for the masses, not another advertising platform.
OSS and open protocols are so important for the future. Who cares if some people feel overwhelmed by adding an @instance to some handles?!
Sorry for my bad English btw. ;)
A classic way for people to sign off after a banger comment.
Yeah this is a good way of looking at it. The main reason I made this post was after seeing some more fediverse drama I kinda figured it sucks for large instances to have a lot of power with defeding from smaller ones to shut them down super easily. From what I understand it’d be like if Gmail prevented people from sending email to people on Hotmail or something.