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How’s everyone liking this so far? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by SpezCanLigmaBalls@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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I honestly do not mind it one but. I quite like the interface. It’s minimal but there are some bugs to it which is to be expected. I really do like the overall design of it though. There isn’t too much going on. It’s like old Reddit which I am a big fan of

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[-] Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago

aggregation feeds from multiple instances are a feature being looked at for the future.

For now, you've got to find them and subscribe to as much as possible, sometimes a community on another instance will need to be fetched (usually by pasting the URL into the search bar) before it will actually appear for you to subscribe to.

[-] Sirquacksalot@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

That's a huge barrier to entry for most people, myself included. I don't have time, or the interest, in subbing to multiple versions of the same community and figure out which one is the best one.

I honestly have no idea what is even meant by 'having to fetch an instance'? If I can't find it in the search already, how do I even know it exists, nevermind knowing what the url is to paste? Surely there is a list of all the instances and communities that have been created in Lemmy, so why isn't that just used by the search?

I'm honestly not trying to be combative, I'm just really confused about all this, and I really don't know if I even have the bandwidth to learn it at this point. I might just have to stick to Reddit because learning all this new shit is too stressful for me and it's very frustrating for me.

[-] Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

It will get easier as the network grows, but for now it's a bit of a mess.

lemmy.world that you are on is pretty good at fetching as it is a large, fast server with a lot of traffic, but you still might see someone try to link you do a small niche community, hosted on someones homelab garage server and if you try to get there using a link like https://lemmy.world/c/nichecommunity@pentium3server.butts it might give you a 404 because it hasn't "federated" with you yet. if you paste that full URL into the search bar, or the !nichecommunity@buttsbuttsbutss it will kick the server into pulling the data for that and it will then show up but it's all still a bit jank at the moment.

Thats the major downside at the moment, it is already getting better as more users from other instances joining other groups, forcing the servers to be more in sync.