However, I oftentimes find myself doom scrolling through reddit, just because of some nonsense BS propaganda, ads, etc .., snuck inbetween of the community posts I'm actually interested in.

How can we convince the people over there to move away?

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[–] LennethAegis@fedia.io 0 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I think how fragmented lemmy is hurts it. I enjoy Mastodon more, because it doesn't matter what server a person uses, you have but a single feed of all the people you follow.

But here on lemmy, every server has its own communities and might even be having the same conversations apart from each other. While reddit is a giant single space for each conversation.

If there was a way to unite feeds so that, for example, /c/gaming gave you posts from every community /c/gaming you are subscribed to or federated with (or /m/gaming for us mbin folks). I think we could really see a proper exodus from reddit as it becomes proper alternative.

and of course, the classic lemmy experience would remain for those that don't want to do that. Much like old.reddit remained strong in the face of the site remake.

EDIT: Maybe what we need instead is multi-reddits. Custom made aggregate feeds made by the user, so you have full control over your aggregated feed. And they don't need to have the same names in that case.

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 2 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

PieFed already has that, in "Categories" of communities. If you select gaming, it combines all the posts from all the communities that are related to gaming. I'm not sure how it works, maybe each instance admin has a list somewhere.

Furthermore, an individual user is subscribed to all of those, so that you can easily remove content from certain communities merely by leaving it. Or join more of them.

~~I think Mbin has something like this too, though at a casual glance without a login I cannot see it.~~

Lemmy is starting to fall behind these other alternatives, written in more commonly used languages (than Rust) so allowing contributions from more people, which helps them gain features more quickly.

Edit: and to address the issue of forgetting what community someone is viewing, that's not an issue either: every single post includes the entire community description at the bottom of it, beneath the comments - here's some examples: a post with few comments to have to scroll past, another example showing a YouTube preview (also offers direct piped.video link), here's a non-gaming example of a post I made that includes #hashtags at the bottom. In all of those see the categories up at the top, and in the former two on Beehaw, the special note just below the post about how that instance has different moderation practices than usual, with a direct link to what those are, in the admins' own words.

Overall PieFed lacks some polish compared to Lemmy, especially in replying to comments more deeply embedded in the threaded conversations of larger posts, yet in so many ways it already has surpassed what Lemmy chooses to offer its users, it's fantastic to look at, and even more exciting to think about where it will head next!:-)

[–] LennethAegis@fedia.io 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I'd not heard of PieFed, that's cool that someone implemented my idea already. I'm on Mbin and not seeing anything like this though.

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 2 points 21 hours ago

Thank you! I edit it out of my comment (well, put it in strikethrough). I thought perhaps it might be in the microblog area or something but nope, I don't see it there either. It does combine cross-posts, so perhaps that's what I was incorrectly recalling.

PieFed is really super-neat! Not entirely polished, but not entirely not either, and something to keep an eye on either way. :-)

[–] ad_on_is@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That fragmentation annoyed me too at the beginning, until somenoe tokd me something along the lines.

"It's like different reddit subs with each hsving their own mods and rules"...

So /c/gaming on instance A, and /c/gaming on instance B, would be like /r/gaming and /r/gamingfornoobs.

[–] LennethAegis@fedia.io 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's a good point. By each being its own server with own own rules and mods, my idea would make it harder on mods of the communities if people are not even aware of where they are posting.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Does your interface not show the instance with the community name?

[–] LennethAegis@fedia.io 1 points 1 day ago

I meant that as an extension to my original comment asking for all communities with the same name from different instances to show up in a mixed feed.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

Ptecisely, that's how I always saw it. Say /r/games and /r/gaming, ostensibly those should have the same content but each had its own culture (or did at one point, who knows now)

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

They are all available on every instance. It's not different than having five communities for the same subject on Reddit. It's worse here right now because so few communities have managed to "clear their orbit" yet, but it will get better.