For the majority of commenters: UX is not UI.

The poor UX experience is the research a person has to do before they can even participate. You need to have a basic understanding of how the network works, and then you have to shop around for a server.

It’s enough friction to prevent people from on-boarding and that’s not good for a platform that needs people to be valuable.

They didn’t, they signed up for gmail.

They actually sell a service where you can buy a domain name and have it set as your username.

It’s not centralized, it’s also not a federated network like AP. It’s just a different design.

Not quite true. You can host your own personal data store (PDS), run your own labelling service, and you can host your own feeds.

The big relays and app views are the only thing that aren’t really supported by the official app yet.

… this might just be in Firefox, I have no idea.

I forget the author, but The Immortal Game is both. It discusses chess history, but also tells the story of a famous game that took place in a pub after hours during a major chess tournament. Probably a little more on the informative side but I really liked it.

I swear that half the reason I want one of these is because the updates look so exciting for y’all. Really happy for steam deck owners.

It looks really cool! I’m going to be buying a new keyboard eventually and I really want one with a rotary knob. I’ll be keeping an eye on this one.

I don’t know the answer for Lemmy, but I know this is something a number of Mastodon clients have implemented. It should be possible?