Evan Prodromou, the creator of StatusNet, the OStatus protocol, and co-author of ActivityPub, is launching a dedicated nonprofit for the purpose of advocating for and supporting the Fediverse.

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[–] rglullis 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Content discovery is difficult on the Fediverse. There is no "why" here. I also don't understand your question or what you are trying to imply.

[–] ericjmorey@discuss.online 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I wanted to understand their perspective. But that doesn't seem to be something they are willing to share in any more detail.

There was no implication being made.

What measure of difficulty of content discovery are you using to determine that it is difficult? What would not difficult content discovery be? What content is there is desired to be discovered What do you mean by, 'there is no "why" here'?

I have many questions about how people perceive the current state of things and what they view as potential areas for improvement.

[–] rglullis 2 points 1 month ago

These are all different questions than "why do you think it these are issues to overcome?". Perhaps it was not your intention, but your original question came off as challenging OP's complaint.

What measure of difficulty of content discovery are you using to determine that it is difficult?

Get 1000 random people, ask them to list 3 to 5 of their interests and to find them on "Lemmy". See how many successfully complete the task in less than 5 minutes. Do the same on Reddit.

What would not difficult content discovery be?

A better onboarding wizard.
An unified search engine that index all of the content, not just what is available in an given instance
Recommendation algorithms (no, not all algorithms are bad)
Searching people by their interests