Nothing agains this place, but it is VERY cumbersome to get going. Squabbles seems super responsive and intuitive. I’ll be using both!
I liked it briefly when I logged in but as someone on reddit pointed out, the owner encouraged others to astroturf bringing new users to the site which feels kinda icky given the way other users have also bashed lemmy alongside it.
That sounds exactly like my experience with MeWe. I investigated them as part of the team of Goodreads refugees who were looking for a new home after the Amazon takeover. MeWe functioned as a cult, and they were (are) a walled garden. Numbers were constantly urged to recruit, recruit, recruit.
But when search engines can’t see your community or your posts, and you can’t even share links except to members, there’s no future. Nothing you write will ever go viral. Nobody will ever stumble upon something great that you rode and decide to get involved or to follow you.
Is it federated?
If not, it’s not useful.
100% I’m done investing my time in closed services controlled by capital
I use it sometimes. Apart from the non-federated aspect, there is a cultish mentality in some users there, which I find very annoying.
It doean’t even say who runs the site on the “about” page. The privacy policy also seems lacking. Not sure what to think of it yet.
That also doesn’t work at all without javascript, not even showing anything, is off-puttingSeems pointless to switch to a different closed-source, centralized platform. Why would this be any different from Digg or Reddit? Switching to a federated system is the only way to make sure that cycle doesn’t repeat.
Fool me once. Shame on Digg. Fool me twice. Shame on Reddit.
yeah, I read the introduction that someone elses written for emigration, it naturally guides to toward using lemmy(or whatever more suitable fediverse alternatives). You do not want to repeat the same mistake of putting all that efforts into a community that you basically surrenders all data to who owns that domain/company.
For fediverse I can like just start my own instance or migrate and create a new account with ease, if an instance owner decides to close or transfer ownership of the server. The information is still available somewhere else. (I think later down the road it might be possible to migrate community content you created with scripts just like how you can nuke all you post history with reddit.)
