Hey mate, is there a com for lemmy's dev? I'm just wanting to see when new versions of Lemmy get released to look at the changelogs for my hoped-for features being implemented
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Hey mate, any recos for Aussie instances?
Whilst it's all part of the fediverse experience, I think there needs to be a much lower friction workflow to migrate users, even if banned, to reduce the cost to a user of disagreements with mods that can't be resolved harmoniously on an instance.
It desperately needs lower friction remote community subscribing and a user migration workflow between instances.
Since your account is tied to your instance, it's best to find an instance whose rules gel with content you're likely to post so you don't get banned from your home instance. I struggled on Reddit because I'm not from the US and they censor a lot of opinions and terms that are common elsewhere which don't fit their culture there. The upshot being you can get banned from the whole place.
Lemmy is a great chance to find a more global outlook actually, I'm super excited.
The History Guy has a few decent niche tech videos. I think he did one on the invention of screws which was kind of interesting.
Is the Boost dev aware of this?
I think what will most likely happen if Lemmy gets past the inflection point and gains popularity is that a layer of aggregation services will appear. Either third party sites letting users curate their feeds from communities across different servers or the userbase will demand the aggregation feature be built into Lemmy itself.
For example you'd search from your app for Cats communities, and you'd get a listing of [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] and you'd just tag them all and get an aggregated Cats content list in your feed on your app or browser.
Edit: lmao it already does this. Leaving this up as a last desperate attempt at retaining some dignity
Yeah there needs to be a little more user intent "modelling" (probably no more than just a quick sense check really) on some of the design decisions.
I was thinking about suggesting a "watched instance" status that would contribute to a feed that sits between "all" and "subscribed", so if I find an instance say mytown.org, then I can get a Watched feed like All but just every community for my town. This would differ from All which would allow federated communities such as [email protected] to appear in the feed.