• willya@lemmyf.uk
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    10 months ago

    Yeah that’s what you said in the comment I replied to. Was wondering what that negative experience you had was. Other then them defederating, shutting down, or having overall crappy uptime there’s not a whole lot of differences when using Lemmy.

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      10 months ago

      For newcomers it’s not clear what the significance of choosing an instance is, so that makes it hard to choose, and those potential downsides of choosing the wrong instance are actually pretty significant, or at least pretty annoying.

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        10 months ago

        Yes I understand this. I’m just trying to open up the conversation on what those negatives are for people to see.

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          10 months ago

          I see. There aren’t other major negatives that come to mind, but those ones are very important.

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      10 months ago

      Oh I see what you were getting at. The second half of my message talking about getting a negative impression was more so speculation on how someone might react to joining one of the more politically charged instances like lemmygrad or hexbear. Which could give a new user the impression that the fediverse was all like that.