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I run a few groups, like @fediversenews@venera.social, mostly on Friendica. It's okay, but Friendica resembles Facebook Groups more than Reddit. I also like the moderation options that Lemmy has.

Currently, I'm testing jerboa, which is an Android client for Lemmy. It's in alpha, has a few hiccups, but it's coming along nicely.

Personally, I hope the #RedditMigration sours adoption of more Fediverse server software. And I hope Mastodon users continue to interact with Lemmy and Kbin.

All that said, as a mod of a Reddit community (r/Sizz) I somewhat regret giving Reddit all that content. They have nerve charging so much for API access!

Hopefully, we can build a better version of social media that focuses on protocols, not platforms.

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[–] portablejim@aussie.zone 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have been trying to learn the way to do things, as well as getting around the problems.

My first view into the federated world was Mastodon, but I didn't use it much. Recently, I tried looking at lemmy/kbin content in Mastodon, but I find the way it presents it just seemed wrong and unwieldy. (maybe I am just doing it wrong)

I signed up a few days ago to kbin.social, but have been finding that it is just 'broken' with the content from other servers (like beehaw) being out of date - the cloudflare protection due to the growth seemingly to blame. I have now signed up to an area-focused server and have had problems with even finding this community. But now I have come back to it, it seems to be decently up to date and it may be to the small number of users on this server - so I am the first one to subscribe or even search for this.

I find myself finding content on one server but then wanting to interact with it, and there doesn't seem to be a "Take me to this post/comment on my server" button. So to make this post I searched again for the community then had to find this post on there.

Aside from the problems, I miss lists. In reddit I have lists of subreddits. So many subreddits I read I would not subscribe to, but instead add them to a list and so get posts with a certain theme based on what list I was looking at.

[–] communist@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] portablejim@aussie.zone 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Issue 818, yes that is what I am after.

For issue 1048, while reducing links off-instance is good, I think there are more ways that you end up being on a different instance, such as browsing different instances for content (because there isn't an exact equivalent to /r/all here). As I think about it, it seems like instances maybe should have something like an "Open Link" feature. Maybe that is what nnhien is talking about

[–] communist@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] towerful@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow, this is an awesome exchange. Makes me want to go down the rabbit hole of reading the GitHub issues.

Anyway... I'm looking for a GitHub issue in more of a sky blue. Can you recommend something?