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So where are we all supposed to go now? (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 year ago by misk@lemm.ee to c/technology

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But fediverse isn’t ready to take over yet

But the fediverse isn’t ready. Not by a long shot. The growth that Mastodon has seen thanks to a Twitter exodus has only exposed how hard it is to join the platform, and more importantly how hard it is to find anyone and anything else once you’re there. Lemmy, the go-to decentralized Reddit alternative, has been around since 2019 but has some big gaps in its feature offering and its privacy policies — the platform is absolutely not ready for an influx of angry Redditors. Neither is Kbin, which doesn’t even have mobile apps and cautions new users that it is “very early beta” software. Flipboard and Mozilla and Tumblr are all working on interesting stuff in this space, but without much to show so far. The upcoming Threads app from Instagram should immediately be the biggest and most powerful thing in this space, but I’m not exactly confident in Meta’s long-term interest in building a better social platform.

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[–] uzay 86 points 1 year ago (14 children)

That so many people think Mastodon is hard to join makes me think that there are a lot of people on the internet now who have never learned how to use the internet

[–] AnotherPerson 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There are a lot of people who grew up with iPhones as their first device and things "just worked" so they never learned how to troubleshoot or have to muck their way through learning software.

[–] djw 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is a big part of it. I work in higher education, and it’s not uncommon for university students to slap their computer on my desk and ask me where their essay is.

There was an article going around academia for a while about how students don’t know how to organize their files: https://www.theverge.com/22684730/students-file-folder-directory-structure-education-gen-z

The relevance to this particular discussion, I think, is that it’s all pretty intuitive with a little patience and time trying to understand it instead of expecting everything to be automatic.

[–] PlushySD 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I added organizing files to my assignments rubric. It's part of the course objective. Any unorganized files will not be graded. It's a bit learning curve for the 1st week but after that mostly it's OK. My take is, thay can, if we teach them.

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