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Redditors, how do you like Lemmy? (beehaw.org)
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I run a few groups, like @[email protected], mostly on Friendica. It's okay, but Friendica resembles Facebook Groups more than Reddit. I also like the moderation options that Lemmy has.

Currently, I'm testing jerboa, which is an Android client for Lemmy. It's in alpha, has a few hiccups, but it's coming along nicely.

Personally, I hope the #RedditMigration spurs adoption of more Fediverse server software. And I hope Mastodon users continue to interact with Lemmy and Kbin.

All that said, as a mod of a Reddit community (r/Sizz) I somewhat regret giving Reddit all that content. They have nerve charging so much for API access!

Hopefully, we can build a better version of social media that focuses on protocols, not platforms.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

coming along well, will take a while for users to spread out and not just mass on one large server, we need to spread out to keep this working and viable for the future.

To do that however, we need better ways to find communities on other instances, and more easily link to them with links that work on each users instance URLs. at the moment if I do [email protected] or [email protected] those will take you off your current instance unless you are already on it, losing your login. The average user wont expect that and might not even notice they are on a totally different website and wonder why their logins don't work.

Apparently all of this as well as aggregated topic subscriptions (so you don't need to find and subscribe to 10 different communities for one topic) are being worked on, that will be very cool.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I did figure out if I just put /c/community@instance into a link markup it works perfectly across instances for all users, which is nice, but there is no way to know whether the user will actually see a feed or just a 404 if the community is small or the server is slower and it is not yet in sync. clicking the link does not automatically federate unless you type it into your searchbar as far as I know. I havent really tested though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, totally. Searchign and suscribing to other communities and instances it's a but cumbersome. Hell, even on Jerboa if I open the "name" of other instances it will try to open it in a browser.

Otherwise, as long as people keep comenting and bringing content this seems a good place.