I think that just means the platform is not for you (or for me). If it was a good fit for you then you would have people that you want to follow.

it’s better than nothing, users get so confused currently when they see this

that message would be greatly improved if it said “or open this in your home instance by clicking here”

also if it uses a common input name (which it would because it’s the same Lemmy software) then your webbrowser would suggest/autocomplete it

I never enjoyed Mastodon or Twitter either

but if you want to follow a person instead of a topic/community then you use Mastodon/Mbin/etc

have you seen the “Subscribe from Remote Instance” feature that already exists in Lemmy?

Could be identical to this

this makes me think we should have a marker for communities that are inactive/dead or an easy way to hide them or filter them out in favor of more active communities

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/3174

we can tell :) keep it up

Chat view could show single comment of context

this would be almost identical to old school forums, clubsall does this too even with posts that originated from Lemmy

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/2544

markdown element for datetime with automatic timezone conversions

like how Discord uses hammertime

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/2482

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yea, but if Lemmy never adds a feature you really want, maybe we just switch to PieFed lol

the Lemmy devs are very much against merged comments

although they do show crossposts already and v1.0 will have multi-communities

Remotely open post, similar to remote follow

I think this would greatly reduce confusion for new users when they click a Lemmy link and end up on a different instance

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/2318

community aggregators. For big communities, merge crossposts automatically on bigger communities

PieFed does this

If I want to view the local on Communick.News, I can’t. I have to create an account there. And if I want to view the local on Lemmy.World I need to log out of your instance, and log in over here.

you don’t actually need to logout/login, you can view them anonymously

even if you wanted to login to a different instance, you don’t need to logout of the previous one

although you’ll have to copy paste the post links to your own instance’s search bar in order to vote/comment

for no reason other than that reddit had lots of communities

Yea, looking back we probably should’ve had limits on creating communities. We all created too many lol

I’m not really sure this is a software issue, if anything Lemmy probably handles new and small communities better than Reddit does. We just don’t have as many users.

try Mbin https://joinmbin.org/

doesn’t PieFed do this?

Dragon Ball Super. People took a cherry-picked zoomed-in screenshot of Goku from like episode 4 or whatever and it’s still memed even today, as if there aren’t parts of the show that have outstanding animation.

There are some moderation actions you can do from a different instance, I’m not sure which ones don’t work or if they’ve all been fixed

You should create an account on a different instance and appoint yourself as moderator, at least for times when you don’t want to get on VPN, like using an app on your phone