Honestly. I was setup and subscribed to some initial communities within 2 hours of RIF going down. Literally my only complaint at this point is the relative lack of content.
Be part of the solution, make it 😉.
One of us. One of us.
Id like a filter for top of all time, but that’s honestly my only “complaint” im shocked at how developed this is, and the web app wefwef is a little too good lol
There is a "Top - All Time" filter at least on the web. Works well for local, not sure about off local though. Mobile apps might not have all the filters though.
It seems to show the posts with the most updoots. Curiously the first page of Top - All Time are all from the last few weeks. Goes to show the explosive influx of Reddit Refugees into the Fediverse.
Connect for Lemmy has a setting where it will hide posts the user has voted on. I believe the website has this as well. Works great for keeping content fresh rather than seeing the same posts about the Reddit migration.
I like to return to threads so I just alternate between viewing "new".
Why do so many of you like this feature? Do you just never go back to the same thread more than once?
Wefwef sent me from concerned lemmy isnt quite ready to all in. Total 180.
It's steadily getting better. Try looking at All instead of Local or Subscribed to see more
Also use Top day or Top X hours instead of Hot.
I've been using Active, and it shows the posts with most engagement. It's nice. Then I upvote or downvote the posts and on the next refresh they stay hidden (disabled show read posts on my instance).
Do any of the apps support anything shorter than top>day yet?
Same. Choose an instance, sign up. You don't really need to understand the federation stuff (although it helps understand the quirks).
I can see how having communities with the same name across different servers can be confusing for some people though.
Once you understand how federation works, it becomes clear.
Time to post some cat pictures!
One reason this happens if you made your account on a small instance is that your instance just isn’t federating with very many communities. If you’re the first from your instance to subscribe to a community, try this: Use an explorer like lemmyverse.net to find new communities, copy the url into your home instance’s search field, and it should appear in the results after a few seconds or a refresh. Click the search result and subscribe from there. From then on, that instance will populate everyone’s ‘All’ tab on your home instance with posts from that community, and ‘Subscribed’ if you remain subscribed
Could you explain this a bit more or link to some info? Im new here too, I thought the whole point was that different instances communicated which communities where hosted through them so It wouldn't matter what instance you have your account with and you will be able to see the different communities from different instances. And to get some jargon right, that intercommunication between instances is the fediverse.
It does matter where your account is because instances will not federate communities until someone from that instance subscribes to that community, and then it only pulls 20 posts and no comments. It will then start pulling everything new thats being posted/commented on that community, but anything before that is basically gone. This means that if you join a new/low userbase instance you will be missing a lot of stuff that was posted, while the larger instances will have way more people subscribed to communities before you even joined therefore having a larger content pool
This is the current and unfortunate situation. I dearly hope that this will change soon, leveling the playing field for young instances, and improving discoverability.
There is content but finding and making use of it is kind of obnoxious at the moment. I am very hopeful that workarounds will soon be available to smooth it out. However being subscribed to some random communities doesn't scratch the itch people have because the point is to have meaningful participation. Your own report is that you have not yet learned to use this platform to its potential.
I have been wondering what percentage of the smarty pants ppl bragging about how not-difficult lemmy is have simply failed to grasp it. It is inherently complex. It makes no sense because it was designed to accommodate significant dynamism. In the past few weeks, the partially-complete implementation has been pushed to the max. If you are satisfied with a small, narrow window onto that, you can pick it up pretty quick and keep it simple. But you are missing a lot too.
What do you think a lot of people are missing?
Federation made no sense to me either, but everyone just said to make an account somewhere and start using it. That’s what I did and, while I don’t pretend to understand the back end, the stuff I’m using makes perfect sense to me.
99% of us don't give a shit about federation. Just give me the memes!
After a few days you won’t even remember that there are different servers. It will feel like one.
That's the cool big idea in my eyes.
Like, you see a different thing after the @, but it's all in one place so it doesn't reeeeally matter.
That's what I keep saying. Stop trying to explain it. Just have them sign up and start consuming content. They'll get the basics by osmosis eventually
Fucking five, I miss him.
What an incredible actor he is. Everyone on the show is great, but he is really, really good.
I don't mean to sound like I'm super smart or anything but I didn't have any issue figuring out mastodon or lemmy.
I think the larger issue is people won't take three minutes to read some basic instructions and background. They want to be spoon feed info and told what buttons to click.
True, and I spent almost a month holding the spoon, but now with Sync dead I'm hoping the rest can feed themselves.
To be fair, if it were spoon fed to people, it would be more popular. The best thing for federation is if it were much easier to get into for the average person.
What is this from?
Umbrella Academy
Great show.
I could never get past those rubber gorilla arms on season one. I know I'm probably missing out... lol.
The guy lived on the moon for a bit so... bound to be a little off. The whole show is a little helter skelter but I think that's what makes it so great. Creative and unexpected with pinch of time travel, yum.
Yeah I've seen enough positive feedback on it that I'll probably wait for the last season to air then binge it all at once.
It's a gonzo superhero show on Netflix. It's weirdo fun based on a very, very silly comic book. I enjoy it, but if you don't you'll know pretty quickly. Check it out.
So relatable lol. I feel like an expert but I have only been using it for a few weeks
I used reddit for like, a few days. Dunno how this place is confusing, maybe adaptation pains?
I’ve literally had a conversation like
“the fediverse is too complex”
“It’s actually pretty simple when you get the hang of it, it took me like 5 minutes to understand it”
“That’s 5 minutes too much, everything is simple once you get the hang of it, actually simple things are intuitive from the start”
As if when you’re born you already have the knowledge required to browse Facebook in your brain. You have to “get the hang” of everything you use, there’s just more complex and less complex stuff (and 5 minutes is very much on the lower end).
I think people get some degree of choice paralysis as well. It's hard to pick which instance to join, and I worried about what I might miss out on. I ended up making accounts on a few and messed around until I settled on Lemmy.world. I could see this being a barrier for entry and forcing some people to just stick with the easy road, Plebbit.
It’s from the show umbrella academy it’s on Netflix.
Love the burn; like taco sauce in my ass
Wth is federation?
You're on lemmy.ca, I'm not, but I can still see and reply to your comment
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