This is really cool! But – and I mean no disrespect – it’s not really Tarot (or at least not the Major Arcana). Tarot is about symbology, whereas these cards are akin to the Minor Arcana royalty – Page, Knight, Queen, and King. The art of the Major Arcana is specifically designed to contain certain symbols which can be used for readings. Of course, there are plenty of decks out there that do not conform to this, but they aren’t particularly useful as Tarot. It would be really cool to recreate this symbology as Major Arcana cards in the context in Elden Ring though!

At least for now always sorting by new is very pleasant.

It is a somewhat reductive statement, I’ll give you that, but I think the core idea is true. Most people will go to the easiest solution. Lemmy’s userbase may continue to grow for some time, but it will not reach anywhere close to the level of reddit. I think it’s foolish to point to the trends from the last week and try to draw conclusions about the future, as this is clearly an extraordinary circumstance.

Do you really think the average person knows or cares about that? No, of course not. They will congregate on the most populous instance so long as it continues to support the traffic.

There was a lot of chaos around the migration, no surprises there. We can’t change the past, but we can set goals to make the future better.

You’re pointing out the exact problem that I am describing: Users will naturally flock to the largest, most stable instances, thus centralizing lemmy and removing the benefit of federation.

The reality is that reddit still exists, and is still more user-friendly (and that’s a low bar). It’s great that lemmy is getting this bump, but it won’t last unless we make it easy to switch for most people. If lemmy was good enough to be a reddit alternative already, it would be. But it’s not, and the only reason people are here is because of the protest.

I’m not familiar with Hubzilla, but it sounds like one possible solution!

Absolutely! Don’t fool yourself into thinking this will be the only time this happens. Some instance owners will never be willing or able to manage their servers as well as the big players, and that means bad actors can creep into other instance through them!

Yes, I think there are other alternatives to accomplish a similar goal. It may be that lemmy will build in its own syncing of some kind. The method doesn’t really matter much to me.

Thank you for that insightful comment. You’ve really addressed my point in its entirety, and thoroughly proven me to be a dullard. I submit to your vast intelligence.

I don’t think it’s fair to call it “Aggressive Moderation”. It’s barely possible to moderate on Lemmy right now at all, and that’s why they defederated. They simply cannot trust outside instances as much as their own, because they screen every user, and they can’t keep up with moderation. Defederating is their only option until mod tools get better.

Instances won’t appear and disappear weekly.

No, that will always be happening. The only thing that will settle is that the trusted instances will become known and people will stop signing up for less trusted ones.

It won’t get more users if it continues to be difficult to use.

Yes, exactly! It’s good for everyone.

That’s the issue though. Without a locked identity on an instance, people will naturally choose the option they think is least likely to disappear in a few weeks.

Using DIDs would involve a completely different system. Everyone would have to create a new identity anyway.

Notice how everyone pretty much uses gmail? If gmail goes down you lose access to everything, but it won’t because it’s google and they have money to throw at problems. That’s not true for Lemmy (and we don’t want that because it leads to Reddit 2.0 where all power is centralized).