This is a false view of humans behavior. All human behavior is logically sound, if you can’t figure out the logic in it, that’s on you, not on them “being illogical”.

Trump certainly has motivations and subconscious thought processes that can be reasoned about. They might not be based on true views about reality, which makes them “sound illogical”, but once you change your logical reasoning to not be based on an accurate depiction of reality, but based on the delusional version of reality inside Trump’s brain, then his actions do start to make logical sense within that framework.

The problem is accurately figuring out his views on reality and actually putting yourself in his delusional shoes. This is incredibly hard, I certainly can’t (and don’t want) to do it, I just don’t have the necessary information and way of obtaining it.

But also, regardless of that, Trump itself is mostly a puppet. There are people behind that actually work on more sound logic, but also have very false views of reality. Figuring out who is influencing what decision of the administration in exactly what way makes this whole explanation thing even harder.

You correctly identify it as futile, but for the wrong reasons, not because it’s illogical, but because too much information is hidden from you.

I like to use “Top of X” a lot 🤔

we should ignore the “advice” from reddit that tells us that people are too stupid to sign up for anything

Definitely agree. The problem is just when someone in the past said “you should join <forum x>!”, you were always able to just immediately go to forum x’s signup page and sign up. But if someone hears of Lemmy, and goes to join-lemmy.org, there is no way to go to a signup page directly. They have to first learn about the multiple servers, and choose one. I think a “fast join” button like you say should be fine, and immediately next to it something to catch all the advanced actually curious users with something like a “advanced sign-up”

In lemmy-ui we have a post-deduplicator for feeds

That’s weird, because that’s exactly from where I’m coming from, I’m always using the lemm.ee website directly on all my devices, and I constantly see duplicate posts.

Copying historical content and rewriting history isn’t possible in a federated system

I have less knowledge of this topic so I’ll defer to you, but I have the feeling this may not be true. You might of course not be able to ensure consistency between all instances, ensure that it’s been changed everywhere, but I really can’t see why this is any different than “editing” a comment’s content or a post title, which is already possible. Why wouldn’t it be possible to “edit” the comment/post author in exactly the same way?

Thanks for your response and all you’re doing!

That’s why no one suggested “simply consolidating”. I didn’t suggest any solution at all. I’m just posing a question of if this actually pretty big problem is attempted to be handled.

gives a prepopulated list

The official one also does that. I’m talking about choosing a username, password, and email maybe, and then clicking register, and being done. No thinking involved.

Crossposts only show up once on the default UI

False, you get links to the other posts, of which you posted a screenshot, but each post is handled as being completely separate. If you are in the subscribed, local or all feeds, you would see all of these posts separately. Have you really never noticed scrolling by “the same” post multiple times? You have to go to each post manually to get all the comments to the “same” thing.

but Mastodon doesn’t allow it either […] due to technical limitations

Yes, I know that. But I’m also a programmer and I know that “technical limitations” is mostly a term for “that’s how we started it and it would be too costly to solve now, so we’ll just dismiss it” and not for actual limitations (i.e. not technically possible). It’d maybe require breaking changes of some kind or some kind of annoying backwards compatibility workaround, but that is why I’m asking. I’m not completely familiar with activity pub, but there’s likely some key used to verify posts/messages are made by a certain user, and there’s currently no way to transfer or change that key to a new account. But it seems very technically possible to me, and also possible without massive security issues. So that was my question, is there any plans to do this or no?

Are there any plans to deal with the most common annoyances regarding Lemmy? In my opinion these are all based on federation:

1. Some completely automated way for users to join Lemmy. Yeah, it’s not hard to select a server and it’s a “good thing to do”, but it’s still better to give people the option to go for convenience instead of the “proper” path. Maybe some kind of system where instances sign up for this general, convenience way of signing up, and the registered users just get automatically distributed evenly across those instances.
2. Duplicate post aggregation. The nature of federation will always make it make sense to have duplicate communities, but this will also make posts with the same links, same images, same videos, etc show up in people’s “all” feeds multiple times. It is technically possible to algorithmically detect these duplicates and offer users a UI option (not actual backend merge) to merge them all visually into one post.
3. A way to backup your whole user data and completely restore it on any instance you want. If an instance goes under, it should be possible to keep all subscriptions, all your posts, all your comments, and migrate them to a new instance.

I have the Aurora store on my /e/os so I can get apps that are on Play Store too. Haven’t noticed any difference in experience except that well, no Play Store is installed.