And saw a bunch of posts about the third party apps closing down, and lots of negativity about that whole fiasco.
… And I realized I hadn’t been there for a week… And frankly didn’t miss it. I am really loving the beehaw (and Lemmy as a whole) community. Thanks for being open, welcoming, responsive, engaging, and just generally nice people. I’m happy to be here. :)
Honestly, the complexity of federated services isn’t for mass adoption. And /r/SanAntonio users are some of the last I would expect to see adopt lemmy. And I feel I’d have to get comfortable with it myself before recommending others, as that comes with the obligation to help them out.
Like, why do thse two instances of this post have 1 common comment, and 1 missing? https://beehaw.org/post/473716 https://lemmy.pineapplemachine.com/post/5781
Also, what’s with this ‘search !meta@lemmy.pineapplemachine.com on your instance to find this post and be able to comment on it’ crap. I was linked to pineapplemachine from beehaw, maybe thats the other user’s fault… idk. it’s a real rough experience from the start.
Please give Lemmy some more time to develop. Until the Reddit API announcements this week, it only had 2 hobbyist developers contributing to it at a slow rate because of its small userbase.
Content can appear slightly different between instances because of how posts are retrieved with federation. In the threads you linked, it’s likely that the older comment doesn’t appear on beehaw.org because it was posted before beehaw.org federated with lemmy.pineapplemachine.com. Comments that were posted before two instances federate with each other are not synced between the instances. This prevents small instances federating with big ones like lemmy.ml from being bombarded by thousands of comment requests.
The problem with links to remote communities not converting to links on the home server and the confusing federation process are also being worked on, but again, Lemmy (and Kbin)'s contributors are a few unpaid developers. They can’t be expected to push production-quality Reddit features instantly.
I’ll definitely give it some more time, I thought I saw a post somewhere that Lemmy was being developed by 2 paid developers. Regardless, I may try my hand at contributing. I’ve got a degree in compsci and some experience on a few personal projects. But first gotta get my head wrapped around how all this works and then get digging through the code.
Just watched a video that mentioned the possibility of following a mastadon account from a peertube account, being able to communicate cross-instance and cross-application within the fediverse, which sounds like a neat ability. Though I don’t see how to do that just yet. I’ll keep poking around and reading.
When I was feeling overwhelmed by all the cumbersome clicks that come with getting used to lemmy, I found kbin to be a better way to just explore what’s across all instances.
https://kbin.social/
It’s a different project but can access and interact with everything on lemmy.
It’s so cool to be able to use different front-ends to access the same content. I personally prefer Lemmy’s software, but it’s refreshing to have a choice in how we interact with a content platform.
It’s the social media equivalent of KDE and Gnome.
With KDE being kbin in this analogy because they both have the letter k in it. Logic.
I love that! Honestly the whole reddit fiasco has been a huge push for me to switch to open-source platforms. I’m now on Invidious instead of Youtube, here instead of reddit, and I downloaded the LibRedirect addon to redirect me to open-source alternatives whenever available.
I already run Linux Mint on my laptop, so right now the last big holdout is my desktop running the reviOS version of Windows 11, and my phone which I need to get around to rooting.
That’s great! I think we’re at a stage of the Internet where companies are grasping ever tighter. But as Princess Leia said, “The more you tighten your grip, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.”
I’ve ended up liking the lemmy interface more, but it was definitely way too overwhelming at first. Kbin helped me understand how content is spread out across instances in a much more obvious way.
That then let me know which communities I should sub to in order to make my lemmy account more what I wanted and expected.
I’m definitely a nerd who loves to tinker with tech-y stuff so I just spent an entire day playing around, but yeah kbin has a bunch of potential in regards to making onboarding smoother.
This is the way.
Is there a mobile app for kbin.social? I’d like to use that too since that’s where I browse on my PC, but Jerboa doesn’t seem to support it.
I’m not sure! I stopped using kbin after getting more comfortable with how lemmy works.
I think I remember something about a very early build for an app, but I’m not sure. You should make a thread and ask!
Hello from kbin (too) 👋
Is there an app?