I am theoretically switching over from Reddit to Lemmy. Finding myself spending more time on Lemmy than on Reddit. Maybe it’s because I am limited to using the desktop and can’t aimlessly browse Reddit on my iPhone. Of late, the only subreddits I cared for were on sports and their matchday threads and r/watches. I found myself aimlessly browsing through r/AskReddit and asking and answering pointless questions.

  • Metacortechs@lemmy.stellarvortex.com
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    1 year ago

    As long as all of the instances you want to watch content on are federated, you should only need one account on one instance to see it all. You can search for !communityname@instance.tld. For instance, to be able to see this community I searched for !nostupidquestions@lemmy.world in my own instance (you have to search a couple of times, it takes at least two from … I don’t remember where I read it on github, but I saw it!) and you can subscribe and interact with it.

    • SeeJayEmm@lemmy.one
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      1 year ago

      It’s not intuitive for a reddit user combined with overloaded servers not being very responsive to search requests, makes for people thinking they need multiple accounts.

      There are some communities I’ve been trying all weekend to get to from lemmy.one unsuccessfully.

      • Metacortechs@lemmy.stellarvortex.com
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        1 year ago

        Completely agree it’s not intuitive at all, and not clear that searching requires at least 2 presses of the button to do everything on the backend. I only know because I came across a random comment in an issue on github.

        I have noticed that some are pretty slow, but the most I’ve had to wait after hitting search is 20 or so seconds before the result comes up. Is there a particular instance you haven’t been able to search from? I’m curious if I’ll have the same trouble, and if the issue is communications between, or just load.

        • SeeJayEmm@lemmy.one
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          1 year ago

          I’m finding oddities. My friend linked me https://lemmy.world/c/hfy. I search the url, I searched !hfy@lemmy.world, and was finally only able to subscribe when I searched just “hfy” and it came up listed as “Humanity Fuck Yeah!@lemmy.world - 4 subscribers”, even though when you click through it’s listed as !hfy@lemmy.world.

          Trying to sub to https://lemmyfly.org/c/aviation did the same thing to me. If I search “!aviation@lemmyfly.org” nothing comes up but if I search just “aviation” it appears (since there’s multiple people on my server subscribed).

          Anything lemmy.ml my server is already aware of is in perpertual “Pending Subscription”.

          And mostly out of curiosity I’ve been trying to subscribe to a kbin magazine from lemmy.one (since that’s supposed to be possible) with 0 luck.