I went searching for something today and instinctually clicked on a reddit link. Fortunately the sub was dark for the protest anyway, but it’s crazy how ingrained in me it is to go to reddit for everything.
Unfortunately now we’re going to have to get used to clicking on those clickbait tech articles like “TOP 10 FACEBOOK ALTERNATIVES 2023” to find information, and weed out the crappy blogs.
Anyone know if there’s a good lemmy community for tracking the creation of new communities? In particular, ones that existed on reddit and now exist here?
theres a little bit of movement starting on [email protected] I don’t know how to make a link that automatically sends you to your specific instances /c/[email protected] so that you can subscribe immediately, just cut and paste the name.
Oh that would be great to have. Manually copying things in the URL bar is less than ideal.
apparently if I just link like this Link it does it properly. so why isnt that the default link type then?
I guess if the linked community isn’t yet federated with your instance it would just 404… teething problems!
Yeah it leads to an awful 404 error. The subscribing to other communities is such a pain in the neck anyways. That should be super high on the list IMHO. But I guess there are so many things that are high on the list, haha.
its not easy to know if there’s just a typo in the link, or you need to wait for it to synchronize with your instance to show up.
It’s worse of course when you try to talk new users into signing up on smaller servers to spread the load too.
I am the only user on my instance, and it’s a true pain in the neck. IMHO you should be able to add other instances in the UI, and then community lists should be exchanged by these instances automatically, so that I don’t have to do the URL-copy dance every time.
Yea, if you’re selfhosted you would want to be able to turn on a flag that auto-pulls any request you make at high priority. I assume there’s a way to force it that could be scripted, but I haven’t read the documentation.
I can understand a server with thousands of users needing to put things in a queue to be fetched and it can take some time to work itself out
I think something like this would be a fantastic idea and would help accelerate adoption.
Discoverability is a real shortcoming of Lemmy but if we circle around one or more communities focused on helping connect users to communities it could ease the transition significantly.
There are some popular comment chains on the github pages talking about implementing a customizable aggregator, much like multi-reddits / custom feeds. you could add a bunch of similar (or identical) communities across multiple instances and combine them into one feed to be interacted with as if it were one singular community. Definite interest from the devs, and it is possible in the architecture so just a matter of time.