Unfortunately searching for it is probably the best way.
It is a little annoying but this is a common problem with federated social media services since links to content on different instances redirect to a whole different website.
Some apps like Jerboa have link handling for this built in for some of the larger instances, but It's a tough problem to solve since there could be an unlimited number of Lemmy instances each with their own separate URLs
I really like board games that don't take that long to play. It's a lot easier to rope your friends into a game that takes 30-40 minutes to play and is easy to learn rather than a game that takes 4+ hours.
Some that I've found
Yeah that's right. In practice though, over time you'd expect most people to eventually congregate on 1-2 big communities where there is the most quality content and moderation.
The upside is that no single server or moderator(s) own any community. Like on Reddit there can only be one r/NFL so if the mods decide to do something unpopular with the subreddit then everyone is just stuck with that.
Here someone can just create a new NFL community on a different server or start their own server with their own mod policies.
Really it's not too different from how things were with reddit though. Often subreddits would fracture and people create a new subreddits dedicated to the same topic. There are a lot of very similar subreddits that for the same topic that co-exist
Think about how r/FreeFolk split from r/GameOfThrones because people got pissed at the moderators and then later it ended up becoming more popular than the initial subreddit
A lot of it is also the moderation of certain subreddits though that's not easy to replicate elsewhere. For instance most subreddits dedicated to football (soccer) clubs maintain a tier list of journalists based on their reliability and will only allow reputable sources to be posted on the subreddit.
That's quite frankly a lot of bullshit that I would otherwise have to sort through myself to get the same information on transfer movements and news
I think the key thing that will screw them is violating the trust of the volunteer moderator force that basically makes reddit what it is. I don't think reddit appreciates how much of their business relies on a completely volunteer, unpaid workforce.
If the mods decide to quit en masse and and either stop moderating or turn subreddits private on their way out then reddit is done for.
That's basically what it is already on many of the largest subs. Hell they even recycle/repost the same content every 6 months or so
It's way too hard to cut through the search engine optimized spam when googling something now. Especially for product recommendations all you get are random top X lists.
MLS about to get a wave of international "fans"
Honestly this will really be interesting. A player like him could light up the league if he's feeling motivated.
I've heard he really likes traveling in the US cause less people recognize him here so I'm sure that has a lot to do with his decision. That being said I'm pretty any game with him playing is going to be an immediate sell out.
I'll definitely make an effort up go see him if he's playing in town (Atlanta)
Atlanta resident here and all I can say is I've never seen an issue the city is more united on than the stop cop city movement.
Honestly, other than threads that are specifically about politics I've barely seen any politics on here lol
Especially here on Beehaw cause I'm also on lemmy.ml with another account
Yeah I've been going back and forth between this one and lemmy.ml and a recent thread on Ukraine made really really appreciate that beehaw has that instance blocked
It's definitely a new concept for people. I've been on Mastodon for a while so I'm already used to the idea of multiple instances
I think over time more people will figure it out and it won't be so confusing. Like how people intuitively understand that if you have a Gmail account you can still send emails to people on Outlook