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This is really cool! But – and I mean no disrespect – it’s not really Tarot (or at least not the Major Arcana). Tarot is about symbology, whereas these cards are akin to the Minor Arcana royalty – Page, Knight, Queen, and King. The art of the Major Arcana is specifically designed to contain certain symbols which can be used for readings. Of course, there are plenty of decks out there that do not conform to this, but they aren’t particularly useful as Tarot. It would be really cool to recreate this symbology as Major Arcana cards in the context in Elden Ring though!


Can we please get rid of these people who insist on remaining uninformed and then going out and spreading their ignorance by attacking others? It’s contrary to the vision of this instance to allow them to continue this behavior.


The reality is that reddit still exists, and is still more user-friendly (and that’s a low bar). It’s great that lemmy is getting this bump, but it won’t last unless we make it easy to switch for most people. If lemmy was good enough to be a reddit alternative already, it would be. But it’s not, and the only reason people are here is because of the protest.


Thank you for that insightful comment. You’ve really addressed my point in its entirety, and thoroughly proven me to be a dullard. I submit to your vast intelligence.


It won’t get more users if it continues to be difficult to use.


Notice how everyone pretty much uses gmail? If gmail goes down you lose access to everything, but it won’t because it’s google and they have money to throw at problems. That’s not true for Lemmy (and we don’t want that because it leads to Reddit 2.0 where all power is centralized).


Lemmy needs two things to be successful
In my opinion, there are two big things holding Lemmy back right now: 1. Lemmy needs DIDs. No, not dissociative identity disorder, [Decentralized Identities](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decentralized_identifier). The problem is that signing up on one instance locks you to that instance. If the instance goes down, so does all of your data, history, settings, etc. Sure, you can create multiple accounts, but then it's up to you to create secure, unique passwords for each and manage syncing between them. Nobody will do this for more than two instances. Without this, people will be less willing to sign up for instances that they perceive "might not make it", and flock for the biggest ones, thus removing the benefits of federation. This is especially bad for moderators. Currently, external communities that exist locally on defederated instances cannot be moderated by the home-instance accounts. This isn't a problem of moderation tooling, but it can be (mostly*) solved by having a single identity that can be used on any instance. *Banning the account could create the same issue. 2. Communities need to federate too. Just as instances can share their posts in one page, communities should be able to federate with other, similar communities. This would help to solve the problem of fragmentation and better unify the instances. Obviously there are plenty of bugs and QoL features that could dramatically improve the usage of Lemmy, but these two things are critical to unification across decentralized services. What do you think? EDIT: There's been a lot (much more than I expected) of good discussion here, so thank you all for providing your opinions. It was pointed out that there are github issues [#1](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3164) and [#2](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3071) addressing these points already, so I wanted to put that in the main post.
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