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I went to Reddit today... (beehaw.org)

submitted 2 years ago by Inspectigator@beehaw.org to c/chat@beehaw.org

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And saw a bunch of posts about the third party apps closing down, and lots of negativity about that whole fiasco.

... And I realized I hadn't been there for a week... And frankly didn't miss it. I am really loving the beehaw (and Lemmy as a whole) community. Thanks for being open, welcoming, responsive, engaging, and just generally nice people. I'm happy to be here. :)

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[–] NightAuthor@beehaw.org 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Honestly, the complexity of federated services isn't for mass adoption. And /r/SanAntonio users are some of the last I would expect to see adopt lemmy. And I feel I'd have to get comfortable with it myself before recommending others, as that comes with the obligation to help them out.

Like, why do thse two instances of this post have 1 common comment, and 1 missing? https://beehaw.org/post/473716 https://lemmy.pineapplemachine.com/post/5781

Also, what's with this 'search !meta@lemmy.pineapplemachine.com on your instance to find this post and be able to comment on it' crap. I was linked to pineapplemachine from beehaw, maybe thats the other user's fault... idk. it's a real rough experience from the start.

[–] Andreas@feddit.dk 2 points 2 years ago

Please give Lemmy some more time to develop. Until the Reddit API announcements this week, it only had 2 hobbyist developers contributing to it at a slow rate because of its small userbase.

Content can appear slightly different between instances because of how posts are retrieved with federation. In the threads you linked, it's likely that the older comment doesn't appear on beehaw.org because it was posted before beehaw.org federated with lemmy.pineapplemachine.com. Comments that were posted before two instances federate with each other are not synced between the instances. This prevents small instances federating with big ones like lemmy.ml from being bombarded by thousands of comment requests.

The problem with links to remote communities not converting to links on the home server and the confusing federation process are also being worked on, but again, Lemmy (and Kbin)'s contributors are a few unpaid developers. They can't be expected to push production-quality Reddit features instantly.

[–] mobiuscoffee@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

When I was feeling overwhelmed by all the cumbersome clicks that come with getting used to lemmy, I found kbin to be a better way to just explore what's across all instances.

https://kbin.social/

It's a different project but can access and interact with everything on lemmy.

[–] Evkob@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

It's so cool to be able to use different front-ends to access the same content. I personally prefer Lemmy's software, but it's refreshing to have a choice in how we interact with a content platform.

[–] mobiuscoffee@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

I've ended up liking the lemmy interface more, but it was definitely way too overwhelming at first. Kbin helped me understand how content is spread out across instances in a much more obvious way.

That then let me know which communities I should sub to in order to make my lemmy account more what I wanted and expected.