Lemmy is going to look more appealing as time goes on.

      • thawed_caveman@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 month ago

        I mean, the downsides of the Fediverse have been discussed at length.

        Here’s a routine occurence: i’m browsing around, opening new tabs and such; then i go to upvote something, and it tells me i’m not logged in. This is how i find out i’ve accidentally left my instance. It’s cooked at that point, i’m not going to post that comment, if i really wanted to i’d have to carefully replace the relevant parts of the URL. This keeps happening in both Lemmy and Mastodon.

        I need to 1. Not fall out of my instance as easily, and 2. if i’ve opened a page outside my instance, i need to be able to open the same page in my instance in one click. Anything else is is annoying to me and a complete deal breaker to most new users.

        I don’t doubt that there’s loads of work done in the backend that i don’t see, but from my point of view as a user, Lemmy still has the same problems it had when i joined two years ago. That’s right, it’s been just about two years, the Reddit API debacle was around April-June of 23, and i haven’t seen glaring problems adressed.

        • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.ukMEnglish
          1·
          1 month ago

          Yeah, that’s annoying.

          There is a universal link system (example), so someone could write a browser plugin but it demonstrates that this can be done by Lemmy itself and you see this in the links next to usernames and posts where you get the option of two links: local to you (a chain) and canonical (Lemmy pentagram). The problem is, the system would need to identify that the link goes to Lemmy instance and parse it accordingly and there is no standard URL. However, if you held, say, the top 40 instance URLs in an array and ran a quick check when rendering the page it would solve 99% of these problems overnight and you could flesh the link out a bit later on. The extra processing would be minimal.

          edit: I asked @[email protected] (as they know more about the Lemmy code) and they pointed me to this which would resolve many of those issues, but also that using Photo gives you a “remote” and “local” version link at the top of the page to switch you back if you ever wander off instance.

          • thawed_caveman@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            28 days ago

            That’s great! Good to see that these issues are being worked on.

            I would have thought that the solution would involve checking the cookies to see which instance the user is logged into?

            • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.ukMEnglish
              1·
              28 days ago

              That may require a browser plugin but if all links between Lemmy instances were rewritten to point to the version on your own instance, that would solve the problem of suddenly finding yourself off the reservation.

  • Kyoyeou (Ki jəʊ juː)@slrpnk.netEnglish
    1·
    1 month ago

    The problem for me was not Lemmy. I still believe in Lemmy, the Prolem was that slrpnk.net really was not user friendly. I’m writting this from phtn.app which someone told me about and it’s awesome! Looks wayyy more like Mastodon and something from today :D

  • shameless@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    I left after they closed off the API and shut down third party apps. I could never go back, whilst Lemmy hasn’t always offered the same amount of content, its always still offered good content, plus I know I’m guilt free of supporting Reddit and what a shit show they’ve become 🙂

    • Flax@feddit.ukEnglish
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      1 month ago

      I got used to Lemmy eventually and like it. I spend less time scrolling which is good. Now just to ditch Instagram…

      • mesa@piefed.socialEnglish
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        1 month ago

        Same but with piefed. It’s the same communities. Love the extended capabilities on both platforms. And fedi integration makes it so anyone can use anything.

      • Sabata@ani.socialEnglish
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        1 month ago

        I was in meme withdraw for a bit adjusting to the slower content. I even touched grass that one time.

  • Cadenza@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Popular/Unpopular opinion : Lemmy is currently perfectly sized. The amount of altrighters and trolls one may encounter is low enough to make is a healthy network. Depending on the people leaving reddit, it might be a blessing… or a curse.