Kinda neat :)
Awesome concept but shit execution;
Ah darn, I didn’t know it was just an AI built site :(
It’s not. Dansup has mentioned in the past actually having to reduce some of the design elements because someone thought the previous design was vibe-coded. He doesn’t do that.
Here is some feed back from my friend who is a social media user. I asked him if he found this appealing he said no because he wants less social media.
I think the landlord part is a huge slopulism redflag. landlords have nothing to do with a social media platform bringing up that there is 0 here is dumb
I think there should be a sell that isnt negative. The fediverse isnt good because its less shitty. Its good because its actually cool in a lot of unique ways. Those unique ways are hard to sell easily but in my opinion the sell should be something positively cool about the fediverse. Personally I like the instance concept I think its what makes this place so great. To my friends I just say its a shared feed not controlled by any one entitiy.
I asked him if he found this appealing he said no because he wants less social media.
Well you can reach the end of the feed in lemmy, that’s a plus isn’t it?
I like the concept here, but it doesn’t address the big gotcha that I found out when I setup my own lemmy instance is that you can’t federate to all the different instances that support activitypub. I can’t use my lemmy account to post on mastadon or loops.video or pixelfed, or etc. you still need separate accounts on each instance. Maybe someday they will all talk to each other but at the moment it is certainly mildly annoying.
The issue isn’t instances.
The issue is that Lemmy isn’t designed for interaction with single actors, e.g. Mastodon users or PeerTube channels. Lemmy can only interact with groups, and that’s by design because it’s a purist Reddit/Hacker News clone.
If you have one account someplace that isn’t Lemmy or Mbin (or something similarly specialised), you can connect to and interact with just about everything everywhere.
Thanks for the added details. I appreciate it and it helps clarify some things for me. Thanks.
How is this site better than FediDB?
Dansup actually designed and built both of those.
You own your identity.
Your handle, your posts, your followers. Outgrow a server? Move and take everyone with you. No lock-in, no starting over.
Patently not true, every server you sign up for is a different account and if you move servers you make an entirely new account there that cannot edit any of your posts, comments, or DMs; there is no method of transfer outside of some external tools that allow you to move your follow lists, which typically need to be the same service (can’t move your Lemmy communities to Mastodon follows last I looked).
Also anyone following you does not automatically follow your new identity.
TBH this is something that ActivityPub was not designed for, but it should be.
I wish websites like these weren’t vibe coded because they could offer real value. I wouldn’t feel comfortable recommending it because I can’t guarantee the information is/will be correct.
Edit: I just noticed it’s partly made by dansup, I guess it makes sense why AI is involved.
