I've tried several time to point people to instance choosers, 9 times out of 10 people reply "I don't want to have to choose, can't you just suggest one for me?"

That's why I ended up pointing to that one.

Also, Piefed has quite a few features that Lemmy currently misses: https://join.piefed.social/features/

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

i think lemmy shouldn't devolve into a feature-bloated monstrosity.

i've made the experience consistently in my life that the software that's still around after more than 30 years is mostly the software that's very simple and stable, no new features added after a while. Consider linux command line programs like wget and mkdir. Programs should do one thing and do it well, i believe.

meanwhile feature-creep slowly kills programs like cancer. consider notepad which got tabs, dark theme, and now it's a 300 MB memory-consumption electron-based web browser with a text editor.

[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 2 points 2 days ago

Crosspost comments consolidation comes up regularly as an issue, Piefed solves it: https://piefed.zip/c/fediverse/p/668091/the-problem-of-cross-community-posting#post_replies

Same for actual instance blocking

Lemmy 1.0 will offer similar features: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/3386