Welcome to the fediverse!
I am working on a multi lemmy manager that Id love to get some alpha testers to.
Imo. This is the opposite of having a too big of a community. I think this is just a disadvantage of federation that we will eventually have to live with. The opposite is a bigger problem in my opinion, where one entity controls too much of the power.
What we really need is a better system, be it an app or chrome extension where it makes it easier for us to manage these instances version of their communities.
I don't know what that looks like but the answer isn't difficult to come up with because for the most part, all the lemmies will function the same as each other.
This is actually a very compelling OSS project to make. A Lemmy manager like rss readers of past.
I'm on iOS so I'm SoL. But this is also a problem on desktop unfortunately.
And this is where it gets confusing...
If you want to view another instance from your home instance you need to do https://lemmy.world/c/thecommunityyouwanttoview@lemmy.ml
But there is no https://lemmy.world/c/lemmy.ml <-- this will return a 4040
Ideally there would be a https://lemmy.world/c/all@lemmy.ml or a https://lemmy.world/c/popular@lemmy.ml
Right now, we are only able to view an instance's specific community, but I'd love to be able to view what's popular in that instance, especially that I do not know what communities that instance has.
EDIT And this is where it gets confusing...
If you want to view another instance from your home instance you need to do https://lemmy.world/c/thecommunityyouwanttoview@lemmy.ml
But there is no https://lemmy.world/c/lemmy.ml <-- this will return a 4040
Ideally there would be a https://lemmy.world/c/all@lemmy.ml or a https://lemmy.world/c/popular@lemmy.ml
Ohhhh, I know exactly what buttons to press and have time to screw around, so yeah, I'm smarter than everyone who doesn't... not the best take my man.
Yeah. I believe there's a bug but I havent really had the time to look into it. My other site lemmydeals.com works perfectly though and they're setup the same way.
Nothing against them at all. I'm looking for something cheaper for my usecase. I want to host an instance just for myself and a couple friends.
Been trying to sign up for a day now and havent been able to
Will probably move my instance there. Have it on digital ocean.
You make it sound like Reddit does not have the option to turn the subreddit on and replace the mods. However, the users who actually really do care about reddit will leave and will have to take their content with them.
There's no standard atm but I don't know why it would be an issue frankly. Mostly because that's the whole point of this federation.
Yes but nothings stopping scraping of reddit content from the front end