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I'm just sick of Reddit.

The communities there seem much more active than the once on lemmy, which is not a surprise.

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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[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 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 23 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 23 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. :-)