Will there be an option to show the community instance throughout the app like in Memmy? This is what's stopping me from using the app. I would happily pay for the subscription if you include that:
This is the way to go. Lemmy/Kbin is a non-profit community initiative and we all need to do our part to ensure its success. Whether it's helping with programming, creating new tools, helping with documentation, hosting instances, donating, and much more.
That way we'll be free from platform enshittification.
Slashdot -> Digg -> Reddit -> Lemmy. Back then, web servers didn't have a lot of resources. So if a Digg post was popular, it could slow the site to a crawl. Then we all knew the site was being "Digged".
I disagree. To me, instances are like countries with their own constitution (rules) and police (mods). This means that two communities in different instances may seem the same, but they are not, because they have to follow the rules and culture of their instance.
Just like a PS5 club in Germany will not be the same as the PS5 club in the US because they will be culturally different. I think it will take some time for the Fediverse to think this way.
For me, this is better. Instead of having one giant technology community where your comments and posts are drowned out, we can have different technology communities with their own culture and norms, just like we visit different countries. Your comment and posts will be not drowned out.
It is a different paradigm to the centralised one of Reddit.
Exactly. Users who are involved in extremely niche communities will probably not find a place on Lemmy/Kbin yet. In 2008, reddit was the same. The politics subreddit only had 50,000 subscribers.
It's all about momentum. The more users we have, the more engagement in niche communities, the more it'll attract and retain users.
A platform can always be improved, always. Lemmy is alpha software now and the growing problems we had in the beginning may have annoyed some users.
I think the most important thing is to keep making improvements to attract new users. I'm already finding the content infinitely better than it was a month ago.
The main problem I have with Gnome is exactly this: extensions. Vanilla Gnome is so barebones that it makes the MacOS feature-rich. So you really need extensions.
But the problem with extensions is that when you update Gnome, you're not sure if the extensions you're using will work. It's a logistics I don't want to think about anymore. For me, extensions are good for distros because you can update everything as one package.
I'm much happier with KDE. As always, experience varies, but this has been my experience.
I wish I could use it, but one thing that stops me using it is that it doesn't show the community instance. For example, if I'm in the Technology community, am I in Technology@lemmy.world or Technology@lemmy.ml?
Mereo @ Mereo @lemmy.ca Posts 22Comments 580Joined 2 yr. ago
Will there be an option to show the community instance throughout the app like in Memmy? This is what's stopping me from using the app. I would happily pay for the subscription if you include that:
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