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Everything about Lemmy; bugs, gripes, praises, and advocacy.

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[โ€“] andscape@feddit.it 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Social media and torrents are pretty damn different. There's a reason no federated platform has implemented automatic discovery, even ones with much more resources than Lemmy, like Mastodon.

I don't know why you folks keep pointing at missing features and saying "Lemmy doesn't have this pretty advanced network feature, so it's not really decentralized", or "it cannot organize", or "it's useless"... It's basically two people's passion project that only blew up in the past month because reddit fucked up. You're not paying for it, are you? So I really don't see how this attitude is warranted.

The tech is right there, it's 20 years old. I'm pointing at it in response to people saying "this is too hard, we can't have 700 instances sharing a few kilobytes of text !, You're asking too much"