And it’s still hard to call it a gift, it’s more of an imposition.

Why would we complain if the zucc decides to not federate at all?

Users are free to download Threads and go lick zucc’s balls if they so desire, instances are just protecting themselves and the responsability that comes with it.

It’s getting tired reading so many zucc apologist, I swear they are bots or accounts created for that purpose

Also the ones who post 10 or more things at the same time in their community every half a day or something and fill the fucking local feed all the day

Not sure now, but at the time they had 4 moderators for the whole instance, this while the big Reddit migration was happening so it was a bomb waiting to blowup, also they’ve stated before that they want/plan to make it a safespace so they are not exactly made for federation since they’ll have to end up blocking a lot of instances to achieve that.

I miss r/doguelore and r/quiereslore

Also if instance A goes down you still have instance B.

Needs more jpeg

I’m not missing anything, OP complained about people not easily ditching closed/centralized software and I gave an answer.
I know devs are doing it as a hobby or with donations, that’s on them and they know who their target will be and how much effort is it worth to do it user-friendly or not or how big of a scope they aim for.

We’re talking about the normal user and why they decide to stick to centralized or move to FOSS and why it’s so hard for them to do it.

Yes and no, most of the free/open software has the problem of being very not-user-friendly (even if it’s only for the first time set-up) and the documentation (even the youtube tutorials) are written in a “you should know all this already” way, which is cool if you do, but if this is the first time you are doing this or if it’s the only time you are gonna use that knowledge then it’s absurd to expected someone to learn it only for one time.

It is normal for someone to complain that the thing that steals all their data or needs a subscription is better because it’s easier to use (install, pay/register and use, done), compared with how different and difficult usually it’s to install and get to work a FOSS option (download this, install these, run command lines, configure all these, now get all these plugins, etc).

If we want bigger numbers, then it should be at least as easy as the thing we want them to stop using, otherwise we are barking at the wrong tree.

Nah, the iphone is also overhypped and overpriced

I already blocked the bot, it’s so much spam of so many themes it drowns everything else

You said it yourself, what most people want (and seem to think this is) is a forum, not a fediverse. Imo a lot of the users who feel a strong need to control everything for everyone will end up leaving, since this is closer to what reddit used to be (you went to r/all and it showed ALL, not the watered down version that they forced for advertising reasons) and we all know it’s not for everyone.

Hard disagree, I keep seeing the same news/posts inside and outside Beehaw in other instances that have their own community, sometimes they even have the same name.

Or am I looking at this backwards, and they want their gated garden, absent of slugs?

You could say that, they have said more than once that they want their instance to be their safe-space, which is cool and all, if their users are all up on defederating at the fall of a leaf along with the mods that’s cool, the “problematic” part are the users that join that instance because it’s big but don’t expect them to be like that, because then they have to drop that account and create another in a different instance.
But I’ve said it more than once, until we get migration tools think of your account as disposable or prepare to keep multiple accounts to juggle servers.

That said, I think they would be happier using a forum-like server instead of the fediverse because they seem like the kind of instance to end up isolating themselves.

I still hate websites watermarks, creators watermarks are ok (like comics or art)

I’ve noticed they post a lot of asians and slim/flat women, then the other extreme of posting fat ones. I like thicc and curvy, but I don’t mean fat so I haven’t found a community for me.
Hopefully some time in the future.

Agreed specially on the last part, quality over quantity is always better.

I mean… Let’s be real, it’s not really about being inclusive or exclusive, it’s just about people being able to decided what they want to watch. Also this would make posts less prone to be downvoted just because it’s not what someone wants to see (just like what happened in Reddit and what keeps happening here).

He just wanted to be an ass.
But the idea (coming from reddit) is easy to do, just add [F], [M], [T] or whatever to the post so everyone knows what to expect.
Altough I’d go beyond that and just split the communities to make them specific (since there’s no way to hide posts that we don’t care about without blocking an entire community).