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What non-technical criticisms do you have of the Lemmy/kbin/link aggregator fediverse experience? (septic.win)

submitted 1 year ago by LimitedDuck@septic.win to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] SpunkyBarnes@geddit.social 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Joined on one instance, it went away, had to create a new account on this instance.

Finding communities and content has been challenging, at least Memmy has the number of subscribers front and center when searching.

Content depth could be better.

These are also, IMO, growing pains that will resolve over time

[–] LimitedDuck@septic.win 3 points 1 year ago

Joined on one instance, it went away, had to create a new account on this instance.

That's a really annoying issue. Not being able to trust an instance to keep your account alive plants the seeds for a centralization problem in the future.