Am I seeing the right posts? Only 4 after a week that I’ve been here.

  • BlackMagic@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    This site will be dead in the water if it think users are going to visit 1000 domains needlessly to get different types of content.

    • Buelldozer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      32·
      1 year ago

      I’m absolutely unable to sign into that instance. Once I click the button it just sits there and swirls forever. I can’t pull any of their communities up in a search from .world either, even if I use the specific name like [email protected]

      I’m new so I can’t tell if I’m doing something wrong or if that instance is just overloaded or not syncing credentials. 🤔

      • ayawnymouse@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        If it sits and spins like that when you try to register, it might mean the username you want is already taken, try logging in or a PW reset.

        Or if you are trying to log on using your Lemmy.world creds, it doesn’t work like that. I’d recommend just making a new account at lemmynsfw

        • Buelldozer@lemmy.worldEnglish
          13·
          1 year ago

          Or if you are trying to log on using your Lemmy.world creds, it doesn’t work like that.

          Yep, that’s what I was trying to do. I figured it out after I threw up my hands and spent a couple of hours digesting how the fediverse works at the technical level. I still think it’s dumb that content and the ability to interact with it is federated but authentication isn’t but that’s just MHO.

      • StarManta@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        So that one entity doesn’t control the entire platform, mostly. With different instances, it’s difficult or impossible for a rich jerk or corporate ownership to make unilateral decisions that make the platform unusable. That could happen to any instance, sure, but there’s a lot less friction migrating to a different Lemmy instance than finding a new app entirely.

        It also allows different people to join instances with policies that match their preferences. If I want porn I can go to a porn-friendly instance that won’t ban NSFW content; if I want piracy I can go to an instance that allows that; but neither of those would threaten a different instance who wants none of those things, and can freely defederate from the porn and piracy instance.