With the number of people concerned about privacy, it is a wonder why chrome is even popular.

  • @[email protected]English
    0•1 year ago

    Whole idea is weird and as of now its lacking features. Like no ability to look on the other instance local feed without registrating there (at least not in apps i use). Also needing to type whole adress with instance name if you want some community from other instance is unhandy.

    Also, as far as i understand, there can be the same communities on different instances, so you could subscribe to, idk, cat community on lemmy.ml, but not see anything from cat community on lemmy.world. If its true its kinda stupid, i think there should be a way to associate comunities across fedarated instances.

    Hell, even registration is kinda messed up. As lemmy.world shown, you easilly can sign up on overpopulated instances which would drop several times a day. Not sure, it probably fixed for now, but that was a problem when i started.

    So far i like the idea and want it to succeed and become popular. But with how elitist people here are usually towards users from other platforms and with overall roughness it kinda seems unlikelly. Maybe it will change when current apps get better, or reddit app developers make versions for lemmy, idk.

    • Frost WolfOPEnglish
      6•1 year ago

      If you click the All, you can see that I am able to see posts from lemmy.ml even though I’m on lemmy.world

      • @MountaineerEnglish
        0•1 year ago

        Yes, but you would be seeing ALL posts from everywhere your instance knows about.

        I kind of like the idea of being on lemmy.world, filtering to say aussie.zone and getting it to show me local.
        Or being able to simply get a list of every community on another instance.

        These are cool ideas.

    • Frost WolfOPEnglish
      4•1 year ago

      But it does show feeds from other instances. Tick all rather than local

      • @[email protected]English
        2•1 year ago

        No, i mean not all, but local from other instances. I dont remember why i needed it, probably discussion of more specialised instances out there. Most down to earth example i can imagine now would probably be trying to find instance on your local language (other than english, ofc).

        • Frost WolfOPEnglish
          3•1 year ago

          There are instances dedicated to other languages, but because they are new, and has not a lot of people, they won’t push at the top of your feed. The best thing for now is to help those instances grow by contributing to the instance and communities. As more activity sprouts, more and more specialized communities and instances will get pushed to the top.

          As a start, you can select Hot or New rather than active and see if there are specialized regional instances. Or try directly searching for it.

          If not start your own community in the language you desire. Bear in mind that lemmy only has 200k users. And most are probably from the US. So you’ll likely see more mainstream communities and in English.

          If that’s still not enough, the best I can advise is to wait until it matures. The more mainstream it gets the more lesser known communities and regional instances can develop or start.

          • @[email protected]English
            1•1 year ago

            Yeah, probably. Still hope it will be an option in the future. I think the biggest jump in popularity gonna heppen when there is gonna be more developed apps for browsing it, considering that some QoL problems could be fixed by those developers.

            • Frost WolfOPEnglish
              1•1 year ago

              I’m optimistic. So many apps are developing at an astonishing rate. Recall that third party apps offer better experience than official reddit. Given time, third party apps will do the same too.

    • Very_Bad_Janet
      1•1 year ago

      Agreeing that it’s not a seamless transition in user experience from Reddit to Lemmy/kbin. But one thing that at least the instance that I’m on (kbin.social) makes easy is subscribing to various communities (or magazines, which is what they are called on kbin):

      I go to the Magazines screen in kbin.social, type.in the general topic I’m interested in (in your example, cats). The search results in kbin.social bring me all of the magazines and communities that have cat in the name, and I subscribe to them all. (Meaning, I don’t have to type out the full community address.)

      Yes, a lot of it will be redundant and if I don’t subscribe to specific communities I may miss some stuff. But I can say that now I have a ton pf.contwct that I’m interested in my “Subscribed” feed (similar to the home feed on Reddit).