With previous Rexit's like the API debarcle etc. many users were left looking for an alternative, but with decision fatigue and bad UX etc. most did not find the Fediverse a viable option.

What needs to still improve, how can we be ready this time?

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[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

IDK I think it works brilliantly.

It prevents the iron grip on users/content like Reddit/Twitter have achieved. Enshitification can be defeated by moving instances, which is way easier when it can be done piecemeal instead of all at once, users can move at will and not even lose their friends and communities. Lemmy.world is less than a third of the Threadiverse, and only like 1% of the Fediverse. Enshitification relies on slowly boiling the frog, but here with federation that would cause a slow bleed of users moving until there's no one left in your enshitified instance. Finding alternatives is really easy and you'll already be used to the software since there are other instances with the same software.

If the software tries to enshitify then the code can be forked, instance admins can band together to support the new fork. Or switch to a different platform entirely like PieFed instead of Lemmy. Or even just changing the frontend to Photon or something like that.

[+] badgermurphy@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I think user friction without federation will always result in too much lock-in. Federation is our only chance to actually defeat the network effect and allow new platforms/instances to actually have a fighting chance at competing when they are better.