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> It looks like these links auto-redirect when I access them from here, but when you access them from the homeserver they are served without redirect

"Works on my machine" isn't going to cut it for running a popular social network

Nobodies going to go around searching for mirrors, they'll just leave and go back to twitter




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I can't see it today. I won't remember about looking at your post tomorrow, but I will remember that your website didn't work for a few hours yesterday, so I probably will not visit again.

I don't really care how you implement your fediserve gimmick, I haven't received it. Seems like lots of people will not receive it either.


If fediverse was going to succeed anywhere it would be on places like HN. The average user doesn't even know what "federation" means.


The fediverse has a problem with discovery, I agree on that piece. Coming from outside the network and trying to access a particular post or user profile is not smooth, mostly because it takes you to the wrong server (I don't use chaos.social, links to there are useless to me).

I've explained in other comments how a URL scheme would help with this.

There are many non-technical users on fediverse and it's working just fine for them, I see their posts all the time saying that they're having a good time despite your scare quotes. The problem in this case is HN users who aren't on the network anywhere, and there's not much I can do about that. I think if you were on it and had a home server this would not be that confusing, you'd just search for the post. Ideally you could skip the search step as well which is why I keep coming back to a URL scheme solution.


They will just miss out on low-effort posts from sites with semi-technical populations, like this one. It isn’t a big loss really.




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