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A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, KBin, etc).

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PSA: Two major points of criticism regarding Lemmy's user experience will be addressed soon (feddit.de)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Firstly, there is the unstoppable flood of new posts that are added while browsing "All". Although this doesn't happen when using the Jerbea app, it sometimes renders "All" unusable in the browser.

This will be resolved once websockets are removed with the next update:

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3008

Secondly, the issue of the same posts being displayed for days under "Hot". There is already a pull request for this, so it has been fixed and just needs to be implemented:

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3076

Now, the only remaining points for me are:

Links to external instances should automatically be transformed when opened so that one can participate with the account of their own instance. For example, lemmy.world/c/memes should automatically become feddit.de/c/[email protected].
Communities from different instances should be able to merge, allowing users to see the content of all communities across different instances.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Would it be possible to have some form of master index (replicated across instances - not a centralized service)

Wouldn't this cause similar issues to blockchains, where new users need to download a huge blockchain file? New instances would need to download an enormous list of every single community on every single server. Wouldn't that eventually cause issues?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Nah, the file would be small and only instances would need to keep a record of it. It's no different from the community list already maintained by instances, just would be extended to cover all participating instances. even if there were 1 million rows to the table, that's a very tiny dataset.