No one really knows how things will play out but I was wondering if people are committed to Lemmy, or would the mod team migrate to greener pastures if a better, more functional alternative comes to the forefront.
I’m hoping Lemmy can improve but I personally don’t love using it. Its still early days though so that might change. There are a couple promising alternatives in development right now but since they aren’t out, everyone is migrating to lemmy.
As someone with a disability, the UI/UX is problematic and makes me physically ill after using it for a short period of time.
I really like the idea. There one major issue that I see currently, and that is discoverability. It takes some real effort and time to explore things outside of your own instance. I think the federation of pre-federation content will be important for discoverability, since the foundation of a community is in it’s ranking of posts, which takes time and interaction. Right now, votes, comments, and most posts pre-federation on another instance are just not reachable.
I believe this problem can be solved, and there are a lot of motivated developers here, so I’m all in on lemmy.
And unfortunately if you are the first from your instance to discover a community, currently your instance can only pull new content after you initiated the subscribe.
This obviously can be fixed with allowing the Admin to set back-pull limits. Also for discoveribility, we need a central indexer, which is possible but would need to be worked out who runs it, costs etc.
looks like https://lemmyverse.net/ is doing a decent job with indexing at the moment. I do honestly feel that indexing should take place on every instance, since each instance has a unique position in the network, and the indexing parameters/ranking algorithms could be under per-instance control rather than an outside third party.
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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I really like the idea. There one major issue that I see currently, and that is discoverability. It takes some real effort and time to explore things outside of your own instance. I think the federation of pre-federation content will be important for discoverability, since the foundation of a community is in it’s ranking of posts, which takes time and interaction. Right now, votes, comments, and most posts pre-federation on another instance are just not reachable.
I believe this problem can be solved, and there are a lot of motivated developers here, so I’m all in on lemmy.
And unfortunately if you are the first from your instance to discover a community, currently your instance can only pull new content after you initiated the subscribe.
This obviously can be fixed with allowing the Admin to set back-pull limits. Also for discoveribility, we need a central indexer, which is possible but would need to be worked out who runs it, costs etc.
looks like https://lemmyverse.net/ is doing a decent job with indexing at the moment. I do honestly feel that indexing should take place on every instance, since each instance has a unique position in the network, and the indexing parameters/ranking algorithms could be under per-instance control rather than an outside third party.
lemmy.cfd is my domain which is currently redirecting to the communities section.