just so this doesn’t overwhelm our front page too much, i think now’s a good time to start consolidating discussions. existing threads will be kept up, but unless a big update comes let’s try to keep what’s happening in this thread instead of across 10.

developments to this point:

The Verge is on it as usual, also–here’s their latest coverage (h/t @dirtmayor@beehaw.org):

other media coverage:

  • ritswd@beehaw.orgEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    Agreed. The same thing needed some getting used to when I moved to Mastodon earlier this year, but eventually, you start thinking in “instances” without realizing. I don’t know if the general public will go through the same transition of getting used to the fediverse, but if they will (and I think it’d be a good thing if they do), then this kind of instance-based UX won’t be an intriguing novelty anymore.

    • Pigeon@beehaw.orgEnglish
      7·
      2 years ago

      Somebody pointed out that it’s not dissimilar from the way email works, where someone with a gmail account can easily email someone with a yahoo account, and that everyone understands that well enough. It’s presented a lot differently, so that regular users don’t even have to think about it - if anything, they can just think of the snail mail metaphor to understand it - but maybe there’s a way to simplify Lemmy onboarding too.

    • setsneedtofeed@beehaw.orgEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      I hope other instances give themselves mascots as Beehaw has done, and foster an internal sense of being a member of an instance rather than a generic Lemmy member. That is a future that seems promising.