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PSA for my fellow redditfugees - there is a lovely person creating a script to restyle Lemmy to look like old.reddit. (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by Artemis@sh.itjust.works to c/main@sh.itjust.works

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Still definitely a work in progress but it's great so far.

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[-] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 year ago

Each instance is basically it's own version of reddit.

Each community is a subreddit.

Each instance can have duplicate subreddits with its own rules and moderators, so you can sub to one or the other, or both. I.e. lemmy.ca can have an aww community and Lemmy.world can have an aww community, but even if your home instance is Lemmy.ml you can comment, subscribe, and post to both version of the aww instance.

[-] JohnOnABuffalo@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

Is there a way to show all communities for that topic at the same time? Say when someone posts to any aww community it comes up alongside all other posts in different instances? I think this is where my disconnect is, if a client can see all of them anyway, why not have them collapse down on one another client side so you can see all of what's being posted and not just a slice?

[-] HikerAdam@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

That's actually a great idea. Maybe have a "auto subscribe to similar communities" box when subscribing.

[-] JohnOnABuffalo@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I was in a mood when they shut off sync right in the middle of my technobable rant on r/startrek so the first thing I did here was try to find the Star Trek community and found 12 of them but not much discussion going on, eventually found one post but it made me realize how compartmentalized this very open client is. But if a user can see all other communities outside the instance why not just dump everything into one stream like a subreddit while hosting the discussions back to the posters instance. It's still decentralized, but I feel as if it would be a way to cut down on reposts. Say someone on aww @what.eve.rthefuck sees a cute picture and reposts it 12 times to other aww@boobook.ittyshit (among others) it would be quite obvious who is spamming repost content within the same community. I just feel like conversations here could be much more available than they currently are