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[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Choice is a good thing, though.

[–] pixelscript@lemm.ee 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Choice is an irritating speed bump to people who don't care to choose, which unfortunately is most of them.

[–] priapus@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It doesn't need to be, as long as there is also a proper default for those who don't care. Lemmy and Mastodon both unfortunately lacked this during the periods where they both had the most opportunity to grow.

Nowadays Mastodon does it pretty well. Users don't need to know anything, they just download Mastodon from the app store and register on the instance it chooses by default.

[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 years ago

What's good for freedom is bad for ease of use.

[–] nao@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 years ago

agree, but for some reason many people don’t seem to think that way