As far as I can tell, it’s another centralized platform as well? I’m hoping we learn from the mistakes of reddit and move back to a less centralized forum
I don’t disagree, but it’s definitely a shame the decentralized platforms are hard for the average user. Most want a video feed, ease of use, and loads of content. While we are getting there with content, the other two are currently lacking.
Hopefully we can make the ease-of-use thing a reality, it’s not realistic to explain to non-tech people how to utilize Lemmy, kbin, etc. Most will lose interest really fast
Reddit already wasn’t a video feed, so if that’s the requirement, all of these platforms are dead.
I agree to the rest, though. Even as a more technical user, the barriers to reading/commenting between different instances so far are obviously needing improvement.
100%, but users are all about whatever is easiest. With Reddit, they don’t need to click a link (most of the time) to watch a video and instead can just scroll, and watch. So it’s not really a “video feed”, but it still had an easy way to view videos.
Hopefully we see similar here, as that would draw a bigger audience IMO. I understand the storage limitations currently, but there are ways to embed videos from other platforms, this wouldn’t be as ideal (ads, modules, etc), but I think would be something that draws a lot of the video-lurking crowd.
Tildes is invite-only, so it’s not really much of an ‘alternative’ at all.
As far as I can tell, it’s another centralized platform as well? I’m hoping we learn from the mistakes of reddit and move back to a less centralized forum
I don’t disagree, but it’s definitely a shame the decentralized platforms are hard for the average user. Most want a video feed, ease of use, and loads of content. While we are getting there with content, the other two are currently lacking.
Hopefully we can make the ease-of-use thing a reality, it’s not realistic to explain to non-tech people how to utilize Lemmy, kbin, etc. Most will lose interest really fast
Reddit already wasn’t a video feed, so if that’s the requirement, all of these platforms are dead.
I agree to the rest, though. Even as a more technical user, the barriers to reading/commenting between different instances so far are obviously needing improvement.
100%, but users are all about whatever is easiest. With Reddit, they don’t need to click a link (most of the time) to watch a video and instead can just scroll, and watch. So it’s not really a “video feed”, but it still had an easy way to view videos.
Hopefully we see similar here, as that would draw a bigger audience IMO. I understand the storage limitations currently, but there are ways to embed videos from other platforms, this wouldn’t be as ideal (ads, modules, etc), but I think would be something that draws a lot of the video-lurking crowd.
Yeah, it’s just as centralized as Reddit.
So pretty much useless sadly
Yes. Might as well go back to reddit then going to another centralized platform.
If you like another 'just a website, not a federation’ alternative then squabbles might be more interesting?
I’ll see how it shapes up.
Can anyone get me an invite there. I love the super old school Reddit design
I would if I had one, but I don’t.