Unironically, I feel like this is the way to go with the fediverse. It takes the best parts of the old internet’s forums and the best part of the new internet. I hope more communities go this way instead of just being created on lemmy.ml or lemmy.world.
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I hope this really works. So far, though, the most annoying part is finding the community and subscribing to it.
So far for me the process is very convoluted:
- I go to https://browse.feddit.de/ and find the community.
- Then I need to copy it’s name.
- Then I need to go to my particular instance (lemm.ee)
- Then I type manually in my browser address bar lemm.ee/c/<communityname>
- Then I go back to https://browse.feddit.de/ and copy the address of the original instance of the community.
- Then I go back and add the original instance address to already typed thing in step 4 like this lemm.ee/c/<communityname>@<originalinstanceofcommunity>
- Then I can finally subscribe!
Oh my God! Please, tell me there’s a better way of doing this!
If you just click on
communitieson top of your instance, you can search across all instances yours is federated with.Note that communities will only show up there if someone from your instance has already visited it the manual way first.
Yeah, that’s the way to do it. Now seems so simple.
Why is this the way to go? Completely honest question, trying to wrap my head around this still
You can imagine the poe-discussion instance as a fediverse equivalent of the PoE forums. Each community can be imagined as the equivalent of a sub forum - general, builds, class-specific forums, etc.
This way, you have the entire PoE community under one roof/moderation team, with all the information easy to find and index. At the same time, due to it being federated, people can still browse and participate from their home instance or choice.
It’s independent of bullshit that can happen in other instances, while still accessible for everyone who uses Lemmy.
Yeah that makes a lot of sense, but it also relies on one (much smaller) instance to keep existing for us to not lose everything again? Which I suppose is not free
Double-edged sword, you’re right. You’re just changing who you rely on. But I’d rather rely on the people passionate enough to run a PoE forum/instance vs a corporation like Reddit
I was not saying that reddit was the alternative, just some bigger Lemmy instance that is more likely to not disappear because someone forgot to pay the bill. Not that I doubt the longevity of this one if it takes hold to be honest, just a train of thought
It also relies on the infrastructure and federation system to work well. I’m hopefully that it will, but there is still a huge amount of work required to improve user experience and moderation tools.
Yeah I’m relieved to see my favorite games on Lemmy, I was never a huge Reddit user in the first place but Lemmy has got me interested in the forum structure. Here’s hoping we can see these spaces grow- letting people in the PoE community that there’s a place here will probably help a lot.
is it just computer devs that use this site? seems like everyone is more interested in the tech of lemmy than path of exile