I agree! Hi, friend! ๐ฉท
fluffyrex
joined 1 year ago
Please don't pun-ish me for this opinion, but I always got a kick out of the pun chains, and occasionally even participated. ๐คฃ
I don't know about anyone else, but for me it was never about upvotes. It was just for the love of a good joke, and enjoyment of some harmless comic relief. And if I wasn't in the mood for it, a tap would collapse the entire thread, so I could continue reading for the real content if that's what I wanted.
The posts I hated most were the repost bots (the worst!) and people making low-effort arguments that came from a place of ignorance, or were just a hive-mind pile-on.
If lemmy gets big enough, the pile-ons will happen here as well, because...humans, lol. But I'm down for enjoying the unique nature of the smaller, more thoughtful community for as long as it lasts!
Not only that, but this federated model means that participants in any instance could potentially petition their instance's owner to block any other instance that has been totally taken over by toxic nazis. (If the instance owner didn't already choose to do it on her own, of course!)
Also, any user who disagrees with the instance-owner's decisions about who to be in federation with is always free to join a different instance, managed by an owner who is making decisions more in line with what that user desires.
I can't get over how unutterably sane I think the federation model is. I just want to hug every single person who thought this up and helped implement it! โค๏ธ I literally cannot think of a better, more fair, large-scale system for community conversation.
The obvious workaround for now is for someone to create an alt account in each instance and use it to subscribe to all the things!
That would do the trick, right?
The downside of that technique, of course, would be that low-interest communities might get exposure nobody wants to see on their main feed.... So maybe it's really an advantage to let those small obscure groups do their own thing in their own instance without bothering anyone.
As one of the larger instances, lemmy.world (for example) will naturally see a larger variety of posts on All because more people there will be interested in/subscribed to a wider variety of groups. BUT the smaller instances will naturally develop more distinctive characters as (theoretically) like-minded people clump together there, defining by their choices the character of that instance's main feed. So, I don't really see a downside of the federated model at all!
With this in mind, however, it does make sense for smaller instances to clearly state their interests/philosophy in their self-description, in order to attract the kind of participants they want to be in strongest community with.
What do you think? ๐
Thank you for getting this going! ๐น
Oh, no! I'm having such a good experience on Jerboa. I get little "time out" messages popping up now and then, but they don't affect anything unless I'm actively navigating. I can continue to scroll & read comments on the page I'm on without interruption.
I also figure that the rapidly increasing user base is a challenge for developers, so I am more than willing to be patient while kinks get worked out, especially when the inconvenience factor is so unnoticeable (for me).
will trigger a domino effect which will ultimately lead to its demise
๐ค I mean, that would be satisfying in a schadenfreude-esque kind of way.
Try the Jerboa app! I haven't had any problems with it at all (the Mlem app is for ios). You can use the direct link to the Google Play store (in green below app description) off the lemmy app page linked below. It's official and everything. I like it much better than the browser version. ๐
There are apps for Lemmy! I'm finding the app much nicer to use on my phone than accessing lemmy thru a browser, which is what I'm guessing you're doing based on your description of using a "shortcut."
Start those groups here! If you had particular people on reddit whose content you always enjoyed, how about extending them an invitation to join lemmy and bring their content here? The worst they can do is ignore you or say no...but there's a chance you could help lemmy grow into the community you want, so why not take the chance, right?