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I hope the #RedditMigration sours adoption
I think you meant spurs lol
Anyway yeah I'm liking Lemmy and the fediverse so far. I actually prefer the UI/UX of https://kbin.social more for desktop, but Jerboa is great for mobile. If they stay actively in development it's going to be hard to beat IMO
I've followed from Fark to StumbleUpon to Digg to Reddit, and now many years later, to Lemmy. I think the communities being spread across instances is extremely powerful for overall global community resiliency (if the separation is respected and we don't end up with a bunch of duplicated "subs" everywhere).
I'm sure you've heard plenty of people say this today, but the one thing I feel the most is excitement. The chaos reminds me of the early-ish days (~1996?) of the web when everything was discoverable and not already aggregated to be served up to you inbetween advertisements.
Difficult.
I just found a post - which I wanted to add a comment to - but I'm now logged in with Lemmy.world - so when I opened that comment (link) in a new tab, I'm told that I can either log in, or subscribe here (copy/search [email protected]) which now shows 'Subscribe Pending'.
So basically, communication isn't being facilitated in this instance - this is a huge barrier. If a connection, or subscription is required to reply, then this needs to be automatic.
It's shaping up to be a very cool platform and I hope with time it gets bigger than Reddit. I find the UX to be a bit clunky and not visually appealing at the moment and also the way communities work are a little confusing. Because of federation, you can have duplicate community groups and that can make content a bit segregated.
There are duplicates on reddit as well (think of r/woosh r/whosh r/woooosh etc)
Google Power Delete Suite. Don't leave your content there for them to use.
Not to rain on anyone's parade but I'd be shocked in reddit hard deletes comments given how valuable that data is.
@atomicpoet
I like it! I especially like that you don't even need to make a separate account to interact with the communities on there! (I'm literally commenting from a custom fork of glitch-soc right now) That alone makes Lemmy better than any normal Forum out there.
Edit: doesn't appear that Lemmy handles content warnings in replies
I like it so far. However, I do have some questions.
- How do we handle "dupe" communities?
- What's the best way to find new communities?
- How are cross-posts handled across servers?
How do we handle "dupe" communities?
I think the only really option is to let things play out. This was/is a problem on Reddit see r/gaming vs r/games. Overtime certain communities on certain instances will float to the top.
What's the best way to find new communities?
This still needs some work. It would be nice if you were able to search communities by instance or look just see the hot/active page of a different instance to help with discoverablility. These may be possible but I haven't found how to.
Reddit had similar problems with finding subs - it was sometimes really difficult. But, honestly that was sometimes my favourite part. You'd randomly stumble upon a sub that you've never heard of that's super active.
I think there should be a way to easily find communities, but there's something fun about discovering a community out of nowhere.
Loving it so far. Once you get used to how you connect to other instances it's a breeze.
Like you said Jerboa, is really coming along nicely and is easy to use.
Can't reysee myself using Reddit much any more tbh
I'm trying to use jerboa, but I haven't been able to figure out how to subscribe to communities on other instances. Even if i have the url
I believe from Instance A, you can only subscribe to a community on instance B if both A and B allow it. Otherwise you need to create a different account in instance B.
This way an instance can have some kind of governance over its users and the content they see.
I wonder if an SSO solution exists and is supported by many instances, so as a user you won't notice much of the different accounts you could have.