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I am theoretically switching over from Reddit to Lemmy. Finding myself spending more time on Lemmy than on Reddit. Maybe it's because I am limited to using the desktop and can't aimlessly browse Reddit on my iPhone. Of late, the only subreddits I cared for were on sports and their matchday threads and r/watches. I found myself aimlessly browsing through r/AskReddit and asking and answering pointless questions.

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[–] akira 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

my biggest problem is, that i have to create multiple accounts to watch my furry anatomy threads

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As long as all of the instances you want to watch content on are federated, you should only need one account on one instance to see it all. You can search for [email protected]. For instance, to be able to see this community I searched for [email protected] in my own instance (you have to search a couple of times, it takes at least two from ... I don't remember where I read it on github, but I saw it!) and you can subscribe and interact with it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not intuitive for a reddit user combined with overloaded servers not being very responsive to search requests, makes for people thinking they need multiple accounts.

There are some communities I've been trying all weekend to get to from lemmy.one unsuccessfully.

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

Completely agree it's not intuitive at all, and not clear that searching requires at least 2 presses of the button to do everything on the backend. I only know because I came across a random comment in an issue on github.

I have noticed that some are pretty slow, but the most I've had to wait after hitting search is 20 or so seconds before the result comes up. Is there a particular instance you haven't been able to search from? I'm curious if I'll have the same trouble, and if the issue is communications between, or just load.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm finding oddities. My friend linked me https://lemmy.world/c/hfy. I search the url, I searched [email protected], and was finally only able to subscribe when I searched just "hfy" and it came up listed as "Humanity Fuck [email protected] - 4 subscribers", even though when you click through it's listed as [email protected].

Trying to sub to https://lemmyfly.org/c/aviation did the same thing to me. If I search "[email protected]" nothing comes up but if I search just "aviation" it appears (since there's multiple people on my server subscribed).

Anything lemmy.ml my server is already aware of is in perpertual "Pending Subscription".

And mostly out of curiosity I've been trying to subscribe to a kbin magazine from lemmy.one (since that's supposed to be possible) with 0 luck.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I had screenshots and a long post, and fuck if I didn't hit the stupid next button under my comment out of habit and fucked it all up because the reply button was hidden. That can't get fixed soon enough for my liking.

HFY came up straight away after I searched twice, but aviation was a different beast. I searched twice, then waited. And waited, and waited. Went and looked at something else, came back and searched once more and it was there. I don't know if the federation was slow, the download of the community, or what it was but it did eventually work. If I have some time tonight I'm going to take a look at what's happening on the wire between my instance and lemmyfly.org. It might help, it might not.

I think we're just going to hit some growing pains while things are getting started. I installed my instance so I could learn more and try to tie myself into the fediverse, I really like the concept a lot and want to see it flourish.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This is an issue with Lemmy software.

In some cases, when we visit a community from a federated instance instead to total subscribers of that community, we see the total subscribers to that community from the instance you are logged in.

Let's assume [email protected] has 200 subscribers, I logged in from kbin.social. When I search for [email protected] from kbin.social and see the community it might show 15 subscribers. It means 15 people from kbin.social has subscribed to [email protected]. Not total subscribers of HFY.

Hope this issue gets fixed soon.

[–] Khold 2 points 1 year ago

Not at all, I just have this one account and have access to all instances. Like the guy explained.