cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/12944261
The psychology of this problem is that users are too lazy to maintain multiple accounts when all they have is Lemmy’s stock web client. So they choose one of the big nodes: lemmy.world, sh.itjust.works, lemm.ee, lemmy.ca, etc.
These Cloudflare-centralized nodes are able to greedily exploit the #networkEffect because due to lack of multi-account software. If there were some well-made 3rd party client apps for Lemmy that would be designed for multiple accounts, then more users would be willing to create accounts in more decentralized parts of the fedi.
Mastodon somewhat proves this because the client-side tooling is in place to make it convenient to have 6 or Mastodon accounts. And Mastodon nodes are better balanced.
I’m using the eternity client (a fork of the infinity client for Reddit), and even though development has largely slowed down, it supports the features I need as a “normal user” (not as a moderator) of the threadiverse. And it supports multi-accounts quite seamlessly imho.
https://codeberg.org/Bazsalanszky/Eternity
I might have to try that app.
As a Debian user I tend to work close to the ideology of using apps from official Debian repos. Debian is quite popular but also disciplined with a quality standard. So an app’s inclusion in the Debian repo somewhat reflects a level of maturity that puts a project on the radar to be taken seriously. There are currently no threadiverse apps in the Debian repos.
Some would say generally that no non-Debian app is worth looking at. But I do make some exceptions and might have to take a look at Eternity despite the opening sentence: “Eternity is currently in the early stages of development. Expect many unfinished features and bugs!”