Fediverse is better at everything except onboarding. The access methods are complicated and ill explained for users who expect and app and simple signup. Regular users have no idea what an instance is. Even people who are TRYING to join the fediverse willingly pile in lemmy.world because it’s the default on most apps. There needs to be a round robin assigner to instances that opt in in order to spread users around who don’t care which general instance they join.
The fediverse feels like old internet which I like but is also a barrier to people just looking for easy alternatives.
Meanwhile everyone is using Discord (still after Chinese funding, enshittification, age verification)
A fringe moved to non federated options Fluxer Haven Stoat
Matrix is too expensive to host, xmpp has no clients to use IRC can’t even edit a message.
IRC can’t even edit a message.
you say that like if it were a bad thing
Why is matrix expensive?
If someone uploads a photo or video, the server hosts it and sends to everyone.
Expensive
Isn’t that how it’s supposed to work? What’s the alternate model?
Can you choose to host it without video and limited image size?
You can limit upload size.
Someone is an optimist…
Why photoshop an XKCD comic?
I assume they mean the new standard, good or bad as it might be, simply isn’t adopted, so we are still stuck with the 14 bad ones
Edit: I misread it, but this would also make for a good variation of the original :P
Pretty sure it’s trying to say these people would have maybe made a better standard, but didn’t try because they read the original comic and didn’t want to make a 15th shitty standard.
I read it more like the new, better standard is never developed because someone used the real xkcd as an argument against making the new standard
Oh wow yeah not sure how i didn’t notice that she responds with the original comic, you’re absolutely right
I have another way to see it: There is a good new standard but the bad old ones stick around. Like Torx, there is still a ton of Philips etc.
