It is lol. Reddit is a forum disguised as social media, something which does not require complicated recommendation systems to feel complete. Hence lemmy/piefed feel more usable in my opinion.
That only sounds good until you realise this political exposure is also the reason children are going the andrew tate route. It's easier to influence children than it is to adults, and my point still stands, neither of these things must be shown to children without adult supervision atleast.
I mean, I too prefer being on lemmy over reddit. I was just wondering about the EUs current push for open source alternatives, if they can ever succeed in their pursuit.
Truth is, fediverse's more fragile than people wanna Admit, that's my opinion from using it for a week. Firstly, everything works on grants and donations, there's no for profit model that's running these servers. That's bad because running social media is expensive.
Second fediverse's still utility first, user experience second priority. there's no recommendation algorithm on mastodon or most other fediverse servers.
Third, this is coming from a security stand point, fediverse is vulnerable to both centralised architecture, and decentralised architecture attacks.
Also it's just, for 90% of people, if they want to have a website like tiktok, they will just go to tiktok. Especially in case of tiktok. Very few people want to try stuff that's not as fully baked as corporate owned social media
Not only is it ruining the experience, the geoblock is easily bypassable via a free vpn. Idk whatever they are trying to achieve could be achieved if the geoblock is this bad.
So I looked it up. Feddit seems to have blocked most parts of aisa because of Alibaba scrapping data. Someone from Saudi Arabia too reported being geoblocked.
What?