I strongly believe any discussion around federation/centralization should be avoided when bringing in new users. They will figure it out themselves and if they feel like it make adjustments accordingly.
You are right we shouldn’t explain federation. But tell them for example with PieFed, they can watch peertube video, comment to mastodon group…but not federation. For me, it is the strongest point of the fediverse.
As for the instance, it would be great if they have an instance picker : what are your language ? Favorite topic ? Then give them several instance.
Replacing LW with another option works too.
I strongly believe any discussion around federation/centralization should be avoided when bringing in new users. They will figure it out themselves and if they feel like it make adjustments accordingly.
You are right we shouldn’t explain federation. But tell them for example with PieFed, they can watch peertube video, comment to mastodon group…but not federation. For me, it is the strongest point of the fediverse.
As for the instance, it would be great if they have an instance picker : what are your language ? Favorite topic ? Then give them several instance.
join-lemmy.org has such an instance picker.
Yep exactly that would be fairer and more equitable that way :)