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  • Lemmy.world is also the most reliable and the smoothest experience.

    I strongly have the opposite opinion. Let people start on Lemmy.World and once they have experience (like you), they can move to where they want.

    They’re an actual non-profit org out of the Netherlands with professional hosting.

    Federation is a feature like divorce is a feature. It’s extremely important that it exists and is accessible. Not everybody needs to do it. Other servers are a fine option if you know what you’re doing and are willing to deal with more issues OR if there’s a compelling reason (such as the various regional servers).

    When federation between lemm.ee and lemmy.world is behind by an hour or two, where do you think users will have a better experience? When 90% of their content is now a couple hours older, that’s a worse experience.

    And spreading people out doesn’t really fix anything. It just puts more stress on federation technology. If you spread out all the users, Federation becomes a much harder to manage many to many relationship between all the servers, instead of primarily being a one to many relationship.

    In short, if you spread out the users equally, suddenly every instance begins to have federation issues with each other, and everyone has a worse experience. With a bigger “main” instance, the majority of users are less affected by federation issues, and the issues are less common.

    The regional servers have more of a balance here. 90% of their content may be old, but the 10% they are up to date with are the things closest to them, most important to them, and maybe in their language.

    I do appreciate having several general use instances. I just don’t want to send newbies there who will generalize their experience to all of Lemmy and the Fediverse.






  • While I understand that, I’m in America. My first priority has to be getting people off of Twitter.

    Would I prefer open source, non-profit software? 100%. It’s the smarter and better choice for so many reasons.

    But if Bluesky is going to gain critical mass, I’m not going to fight it. I’m having a hard enough time getting people off Twitter. I’ve written the media address of environments I’m familiar with asking them to organize a move, and I mentioned both Bluesky and Mastodon.














  • They’re secure. Absolutely more secure than going without. I know a total of about two passwords, which are used in only two places.

    The rest of my passwords look like PaB@@f%G4q77Mh#EsL%DG@

    Keepass uses a file you keep on your own computer, encrypted, with two passwords. One password (a keyfile) is stored on your disk. The other you remember. With that much security, you can give someone your password database and it’s unlikely they’ll ever open it. If you’re ultra paranoid, you use keepass.

    Bitwarden is more convenient, more user friendly, and stored in the cloud. It’s open source and audited. If someone breached Bitwarden, it’d be huge news.

    Not having a password manager, besides being a huge pita, is more of a security risk. I bet you use the same password on different sites, maybe with a variation based on the domain name. You likely often have trouble remembering passwords, and might try several passwords if your first try fails. All this is information you could be giving away if the site is compromised.

    I never forget a username or password anymore. If the site tells me I’m wrong, I know it’s them and not me.

    Plus Passkeys are pretty great and are starting to be supported.