Furry Chat

re Fediverse

Fediverse is a little confusing but not unnecessarily so. It's a one-time hurdle that is the same for every Fediverse site, and if decentralized is the future I don't think it's unreasonable to have this small learning curve in exchange for all the benefits. As for Lemmy specifically, we'll likely need improvements to how instance community discovery works. For whatever reason, NSFW communities stream across "All" but they're hidden when you try to look at an instance's communities directly. This inconsistency should be resolved, and ideally NSFW instances would just show up on the communities page by default instead of whatever Puritan slant they're trying to do now. Lemmy.ml (owned by developers of Lemmy itself) defederated Yiffit solely because there are NSFW communities here - the horror!

sometimes that top comment is top for a reason

This is a good point. We may need to tweak on this to find a good balance, or at least have good UX for switching between top/active comments frequently

Although it was my original understanding that defederation was a one way thing, yiffit would still get data, just couldn’t send. I guess that’s not how it actually works.

TMK it's both ways, and from looking at Yiffit's feed directly I don't see any lemmy.ml anymore. If a defederated server could send data they would be empowered to harass your users. If a defederated server could receive data they could stalk your users (and it would be confusing when your users try to reply but it doesn't go anywhere). I guess that's why it's bi-directional.

I think the bigger issues are that its just harder to find the niche and ask communities

Community discovery does need a push, especially when you're on a smaller server since you don't even see communities that people on your server have not subscribed to. If not many people are on your server, the odds that any of them are going out of their way to find new communities to bring back to your server is very low.