I appreciate the decentralized architecture and the privacy that comes with it, but it’s organization isn’t great.

I’m not sure if I understand why certain instances can choose not to federate with other instances. It just seems to limit the content that is accessible to me. I don’t want to have to switch between 4-5 Lemmy accounts that I switch just to curate what I to see. Its impractical.

I’m not happy with the changes on reddit and will most likely ditch entirely soon. Lately I’ve only been using it for tutorials. But at least I wasn’t closed off from viewing anything and everything I wanted without sifting through instances. I hope great things come for Lemmy, competitors are great, but in its current state it just seems doomed.

  • sexy_peach@feddit.deEnglish
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    1 year ago

    That sucks to hear, but I get it. It is a big difference from reddit to lemmy.

    I’m not sure if I understand why certain instances can choose not to federate with other instances.

    It’s only lemmygrad that’s not federated by some servers. Everything else works.

    Maybe lemmy.one doesn’t yet know of all of the popular communities? You can always look for communities on feddit.de or lemmy.ml and copy their address into the search bar on lemmy.one. Your server will then look the community up and show it to you, so you can join it with your lemmy.one account.

    There really shouldn’t be anything that you could miss!

    Happy to help if you have any other questions.

    • CheshireSnake@lemmy.oneEnglish
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      1 year ago

      As a reddit immigrant, I have to say lemmy is much more complicated than reddit. That’s not necessarily bad, but the learning curve is steeper.

      Maybe lemmy.one doesn’t yet know of all of the popular communities? You can always look for communities on feddit.de or lemmy.ml and copy their address into the search bar on lemmy.one.

      This is a great example. I honestly didn’t know about this. May I ask which instance(?) would be good to join while I look for communities I’m interested in? I signed up with lemmy.ml initially but I saw they were having trouble with the influx of new users so I decided to move to lemmy.one without knowing this. Thanks!