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Any plans to integrate the functionality of Lemmyverse.net or browse.feddit.de into Lemmy itself? (vlemmy.net)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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As it is now, it's quite inconvenient to not be able to see a community's actual subscriber count from an instance and instead see how many are subscribed to it from the current instance; makes it hard to judge their activity from a search, and is confusing for new users.

A shared user count directly in lemmy would be very useful.

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[–] nostalgicgamerz 4 points 1 year ago

This would be monumental to Lemmy access

Is it able to be embedded though?

[–] Limeey 3 points 1 year ago

Why? Lemmy should stick to doing one thing well - a link aggregator. Those other tools can be build separately.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It'd be nice to do something similar for Mastodon.

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

This could be interesting!

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

This is a very good idea and will greatly improve the onboarding experience

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

Hiding subscriber counts is intentional at join-Lemmy.org. They were being displayed about 2 weeks ago, but new users saw them, viewed actively as a form of social proof, and only signed up with large instances.

Problem is, those large instances are starting to break now. They can’t scale fast enough to meet demand.

Moreover, if you signup for a small instance, you can still subscribe to communities from another instance. Communities are shared between instances.

IMHO, we should be displaying stats like response time and integration with the federation network. That’s what is actually important for most folks. If you only focus on local activity, you’re going to have a bad time.

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

I would even say that instances should not become so disproportionate big.
It somewhat defeats the point if the whole federation is just two major instances ^^