• some_designer_dude@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    If the 3rd party apps can re-architect around Lemmy, I think a lot more people would ditch Reddit on principle. As it stands, ActivityPub is a bit of a mindfuck to outsiders so even principled Reddit users are likely going to stick around. Until there’s a better mousetrap, so to speak.

    • ninakuup21@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      An approach 3rd party apps can take could be just hiding the “different instances” aspect of the lemmy and just registering users to a certain preselected instance such as lemmy.world or lemmy.ml I don’t know how legal or viable it is but I don’t think it would cause much difference for most of the users. Though I feel like hiding a crucial aspect would be a kind of shame.

      • tebro@lemmy.tebro.fi
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        1 year ago

        They could provide the choice. But I don’t think he signup is the big problem. Things like duplicate communities are going to be bigger headaches I fear. Though I just joined today so might not be on the right level yet ;)