I don't think an unmodified Reddit app would be able to effectively browse the fediverse no matter how good a translation API is, but it could mean a lot LESS work for an app designer making a lemmy app.
this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2023
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What would the hurdles be for normal, non-mod users? Once you sign up for an instance, isn't serving content from all and letting users subscribe to communities pretty much the same flow? I don't see why the fact that these "subs" are on different servers couldn't be transparent to the client.
The client I use -- Relay -- doesn't even have a sign up flow, and I suspect could transparently serve Lemmy content with a good translation API.
Interesting, I wonder how they’ll handle communities being decentralized.
Communities themselves are not really decentralized, are they?
Kind of, in the sense that once populations booms, there could be many communities covering the same topic. Which has both upsides and downsides.
I guess this will be sorted out by itself, as people will be joining the most active communities regarding a topic - at one point the least actice communities of a topic will "die" out.
Since I've joined lemmy, I've been thinking about some kind of "community merging" feature.
A "meta community" would be able to "follow" other communities across the fediverse and posts from followed communities would show up in the "meta community's" feed. Posts from followed communities would remain on their original instances, or they could be duplicated to the meta community's instance.
There are a lot of details to work out, but I think this would add a lot more usability to lemmy and the fediverse as a whole
@emberwit @Ghostalmedia well they are in the sense that any account from across the fedi can contribute to them. I just posted this topic from my single user mastodon instance
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Couldn't they just treat them as subreddits? Subs are essentiallly their own communities already
Jerboa is already faster and easier than Infinity.
Hey. Don't dis my first love. 😊
I still have Infinity installed and will miss it sorely. It has some features Jerboa is still missing. But I am hoping some of these 3rd party devs will find a love for Lemmy. If Lemmy can hold a growing community.
Jerboa is good but certainly not faster or easier than Infinity. The font size setting doesn't apply consistently, it doesn't find its exact previous spot when going back to the feed, customization is lacking, and the bottom bar isn't intuitive.
I find Infinity better, jerboa is very uncomfortable to use for me
Well,. that's pretty epic..... Will. Definitely follow that Git! Thanks :)
I wonder in the relay for reddit author can make this a reality?
God I hope so. No knock against the developers, because it's a young app and they are improving it almost every day, but Jerboa is really hard to use coming from Relay.
u/DBrady just has excellent UX/UI design sense.
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This is what we need!
Awesome to see!