Does it still seem difficult to understand, use, etc? did you come across anything positive?
I am fueled by my deep, loathing hatred for the snoo site. Plus I found a really great local instance where people are pretty chill.
tumblr and reddit and twitter shit the bed (and it looks like youtube’s reaching for the exlax), if it was only one, i don’t think i’d have made the jump. I’ve also discovered that I don’t actually care about the difference between a handful of people and a few hundred thousand in mini-communities like these.
To be honest I’m still skeptical of the Fediverse as a long term endeavor, but I’m going to give it a fair shake in the meantime.
That said, I was never much of a heavy user of twitter or reddit anyway, so watching the Fediverse explode while various corporate entities implode is just popcorn entertainment.
Client software. It’s been the turning point for me each time so far.
Ivory turned Mastodon from quirky interest/hobby-tier to something I’ll actually use.
For Lemmy https://wefwef.app has had the same effect for me.
I tried it months ago and there was no good way to have a consolidated access point, it basically required dozens of browser tabs to use it for anything and the interface was still bad. The development and client apps have changed everything, it’s a unified and seamless experience now where it just wasn’t before.
