Well, I’m here, aren’t I?

It should say “fuck reddit” where they join hands.

Particularly in the way that lemmy isn’t finance bro bullshit

You can sub and comment on other instances without registering on each one. However, there is a bit of a fragmented experience when viewing context from your inbox.

Except more and more companies are hopping on this gravy train because they can get away with it. At some point (and that point may be now already, depending on the sector), it’s going to be difficult-to-impossible to buy anything without this subscription bullshit.

Anything that doesn’t incur an ongoing cost to provide should be legally prohibited from being sold as a “subscription.”

Oh damn, just made me think, does /c/HydroHomies exist anywhere?

Lemonade being fucking delicious isn’t reason enough?

I still see benefits to strong instance identity, it can lead to some interesting dynamics down the line.

Such as?

But it needs to come with a smooth onboarding process, paired with the ability to easily migrate your account to a new instance with no loss of account history.

Totally agree. Like I said, I think the instance should be selected automatically (or at least promoted) by available capacity. It could just sort the list by user count to start and maybe start collecting some performance telemetry on instances to fine tune it later.

The account history is a big one, too. It could even be as simple as having the ability to download/upload your account history in a zip file, then it also serves as a backup. You could even schedule it regularly with the right bot or browser extension.

Another thing I just thought of while I was replying to this is that would be really nice to have is cross-instance authentication. It’s kind of annoying when I go to a message context, but then I have to go back and find the message in my inbox to reply.

BAGel

Gavin Belson vibes

If the UK calls those biscuits, what do you call savoury bread-like things such as these?

Making the understanding of lemmy’s internal infrastructure incumbent upon users seems a bit … clunky. I work in IT, I get why it works this way, but I don’t see how making it so apparent it serves any benefit to users.

If any user can participate in any community regardless of instance, does anything matter other than instance capacity? The sign up could just automatically select an instance on that basis (but also provide the user the option to select one manually).

Perhaps instances should be promoted according to current and predicted capacity.