Op-ed: Why the great #TwitterMigration didn’t quite pan out

He seems to know what he's talking about and hosted his own instance for a long time, why specifically do you distrust the author?

For his argument, length of use doesn't matter. He's more concerned with the new user experience, which can be determined on the order of days.

His criticisms are valid. Getting started on the Fediverse sucks. Let's accept the criticism and get on fixing it

There's a key difference. ActivityPub is a user-facing technology, in terms of the way data is exchanged.

Linux as the backbone of the internet is not user-facing.

The average user doesn't care or even know if some web server is using Linux or not. The average user does care if it's difficult for them to find and see interesting content on their content consumption platform.

We need to improve the new user experience and ways to introduce users to content they may care about. We need a way for instances to have awareness each other and what communities are available without user-initiated federation. Maybe we need some semi-federation by default. Or maybe we need some global index that all instances can share. Ideally, we should have some kind of recommendation system at the community level to help users find communities they may be interested in.

The author is directly saying that the more instances you have, the higher load on each of them. Because they're all replicating and sending traffic to each other. Then again I don't know enough to verify that, and Lemmy seems to be working just fine for me for the past week.