Completely agree. Great start but room for improvement.
I'm hoping that some of the Reddit 3rd party app developers seize the momentum and either port their apps to Lenny or write a purpose built app. The big ones like Apollo and RIF would draw a tonne of users just by supporting Lemmy.
That's not moving your identity though, that's creating a new identity that subscribes to the same communities. There's an important distinction there, there's no way to clearly identify yourself as you having moved, which conversely also means there's no way to be assured that some other account is not an impersonator.
Don't get me wrong, it's good to know that if a server were to disappear that I could just create an account on another one but it's still a distinction that causes some issues today that will need to be ironed out in future.
Good to know! I expected that an influx of users would propel development, hopefully that momentum keeps up.
Prowlarr works a bit differently, it auto configures each indexer on sonarr and radarr and will automatically remove them if they go down and things like that.
With jackett, you're not really supposed to use the "all" endpoint and if you want to do it properly you still need to configure each indexer on radarr and sonarr.
The net result is its much faster and more efficient, especially when you add more than a couple of indexers.
Yup, also browse "All" communities (not local/Subscribed) by "Hot" for an equivelance to the Reddit homepage and to discover other communities.
As one of those new users, I'm loving the potential of Lemmy and I'm enjoying finding my way around, but it definitely needs some UX enhancements, especially around federated communities.
The article is a bit out of date. I would recommend adding Prowlarr to the mix and dropping jackett.
With the influx of people looking for a new home, I am sure development of Lemmy will skyrocket.
I disagree, it's easy to say that a barrier to entry is good because it keeps out trolls and those that just want to insight hate, but really those people will find a way when anything gets popular enough to bother with. Meanwhile, that same barrier prevents a lot of underserved people joining in and they're left to deal with the same toxic people we're trying to avoid ourselves.
The centralised services didn't succeed because they were centralised, they succeeded because they lowered the barrier to entry drastically. It's a lot easier to do that when you're centralised, but that's something we'll have to overcome if we want this community and others like it to succeed. Otherwise we'll just slowly die inside our own echo chamber.