I know that the purpose of Lemmy is to be split into instances and stuff to stay independent or whatever, but - imo - if it really wants to become a true alternative for Reddit it needs one place for users to land. Something like “LEMMY.COM” where you can see all instances + all communities, where you can log into your instance, maybe even log into more than one instance at once (let’s be honest, who doesn’t have a separate porn account these days lul)
The thing is, most of us used Reddit until now instead of Lemmy because Reddit did the overall browsing experience a lot better. Yeah it needed the help of third party apps for that, true, but I could just open reddit, look at r/all or my subscribed subreddits and be done with it. Being on Lemmy feels like “oh yeah, this is a great idea, but wow it is very inconvenient to look through this place”
(Btw, I LOVE the lemmy logo!)
@ComputerSagtNein One thing that could be made a lot easier on Fedi in general is browsing posts on remote instances. I don’t understand why there isn’t an easier method than going to the remote instances web page, copy pasting URLs etc. It seems very inconvenient
This is true, or at least the bug where you need to select “All” in the search dropdown should be fixed. Automatically pulling results from any other instance that hasn’t been federated could be problematic though, quite an easy way for malicious actors to fool users.
@mikehunt how could it fool users you mean?
Well let’s say you’d make a community that very closely resembles some other popular one, for a non technical user it would be hard to distinguish between them. You could then use this “fake” instance to exploit an unknowing user in various ways.
@mikehunt
Never thought about that possibility 😁 maybe you’re right that it’s a bad idea 😁
The problem is, that if you have an account at InstanceX, and you are browsing the website of InstanceY, InstanceY doesn’t know where your account is. I think to solve this problem, there would need to be a browser extension that knows where your account is (you configure it) and that converts Lemmy addresses to point to your instance.
@ComputerSagtNein @ClassyHatter Or maybe just integrated into the lemmy web interface. On Friendica it detects you as a guest if you browse another instance and then you can interact with posts etc. using your account on the other instance. The challenge however would be to make this work across platforms. There is a browser extension for Mastodon. Haven’t seen it for others.
Mastodon has the ability to subscribe to Lemmy subs via ActivityPub I believe. Is there not something like this available in kbin at the moment?
@ComputerSagtNein @Nolando I think it’s possible on Kbin to subscribe to Lemmy communities? I’m always seeing lemmy posts floating around on kbin.social but i dont really use kbin so im not an expert.