Lots of tankies and no porn
this post was submitted on 07 Jun 2023
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Longtime Rif user posting from Jerboa. Seems pretty cool so far. The issue I've seen is some upvotes and comments not showing when viewed from a different instance.
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It’s been good so far. I’ve just been lurking, looking at different communities. I’m a long time Reddit user and like others have said, I’m going to miss the really niche subreddits. Hopefully the platform keeps growing!
Liking it so far. Found some great communities and have enjoyed it. :)
I was in so many niche places that I think it'll be hard to really find somewhere to connect with.
My self-hosted instance seems to be working well, but I can't figure out how to federate with other platforms such as mastodon.
I guess we'll figure it out at some point.
I think Mastodon federation is one-way atm. They can see our stuff, we can't see theirs unless they post a reply to a post/comment. This is because there's no way in a reddit-like to subscribe to a user, and not a community.
From their point of view, communities are users making posts.
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Redditfugee here. Lemmy is like if reddit and IRC had a baby. Some honest feedback:
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Can lemmy.ml open signups so they don't need to be approved? At least temporarily. 90% of people are going to end up here when checking out lemmy. We want to make it as easy as possible for them to sign up and get started.
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It's confusing how communities on other servers aren't automatically and easily available. You can add them but they should visible from the start.
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If you add an external community and are confused as to why it's missing comments and posts, there should be a message to tell the user that it's fine, it's just syncing.
undefined> Can lemmy.ml open signups so they don’t need to be approved?
That probably won't happen - any old timers here correct me if any of the following is incorrect, I hope im not being confidently incorrect. The amount of resources that the server needs, and the amount of mods it would take for that, would be quite a bit. Think of it this way - its not like lemmy.ml is meant to be reddit as a whole. Its mean to be one singular small-ish instance of something similar, of which the server is ran on some private place by people largely doing it out of the goodness of their own heart. If one instance gets too big, that requires a lot of resources, and could likely kill the instance. Not only that, but open registration just screams bot abuse
Its better to have things more decentralized, and have people go to new instances so that theres not a huge influx that burns moderators and resources out. Im personally hoping that more instances pop up for more niche things - ie, a server for sports, or for pc building etc
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