To see the original discussion, you can see this thread: https://lemmy.ca/post/8488573
To open the post on your instance you can go to [email protected] and see the recent top posts, or use an app/frontend/ browser extension (ex. [email protected])
Alternatively, here is the screenshot from the post.
I also wanted to share this tip for how you can filter for Lemmy posts when searching:
- Search using
site:home_instance. So if I wanted to find recommended phones, I could gosite:lemmy.ca recommended phones. Since every instance has its own collection of posts, you will be getting results from all over Lemmy. The limitation is that you won’t see content from instances that aren’t federated with yours, but you probably didn’t want to see that stuff anyway since you picked your instance for a reason. You can also put any instance into the search if you wanted different results.
Question to everyone, what does Lemmy need to make it easier for people to find content? What are the implications of the Fediverse on how people might find content in the future?
One thing is that people are more likely to get posts from the larger instances, likely because more people are linking to them and opening those links? Another thought was the common complaint about how our post links aren’t community specific. While I can search for posts using the method above, I can’t search within a specific community like I can with Reddit (ex. I can’t search site:lemmy.ca/c/Vancouver recommended restaurants
EDIT: The issues for it are here, looks like the devs are good with it now and someone just needs to implement it:
One of the main reasons reddit mega turned to shit was due to far too many people joining and using it, granted this is due to mobile phones but is it really worth it to attract more and more people? These instances are run by average people not corps with money they can easily collapse under tuw burden of to many
This anti user attitude is so lame. It’s some real hipster nonsense.
It’s really not, when it’s been proven time and time again that more people doing something ruin that something it should become obvious that lots and lots of people is a detriment
The reddit front page is a classic example of that, the general state of the internet proves it too, beaches/music festivles are both great examples too
That’s not even thinking about the cost of everything and corporate meddling either
It is so fascinating to me there are people out there who really mistake their own subjective experiences as iron objective truths. Just a complete lack of self awareness. It’s like how babies lack object permanence.
Its been proven? Really. Do tell.
I like how you ignored the examples I gave you
As we know, listing examples constitutes proof.
Hey bud, I think you should read this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_by_assertion
Yes like all the people using rice for food has totslly ruined rice
Dont even get me started on indoor plumbing. Was so much better before it got popular.
The cool thing about the fediverse is that if grows to much where and the moderation turns to crap on some instances, you can always defederate from those problem instances and avoid the trouble makers entirely. Instance admins can always turn off sign ups when they feel like they have reached their limits for moderation as well. And users can always self host their own instances and only let the people they trust sign up. The fediverse is more resilient than traditional corporate run social media
Reddit is not moderated by paid corporate employees. It’s all volunteer labor.
Moderation is not the issue, the sheer cost to host the tremendous amount of data is very likely to be a reason an instance goes down, thats what I’m getting at