If the number of comments were also the same I would lose my mind.
Also kinda annoying when people post the same thing to the same community at the same time on different instances.
Posting it later if your first post doesn’t get replies? Fine. But at the same time, it just creates a lot of noise in people’s feeds.
There needs to be a standardized way to manage mirrored communities on different instances. Keep in mind that not everyone might be federated with all the same instances.
crossposting should absolutely be integrated better. the “community” thing inherited from reddit is too clunky, a post should just have tags.
Since the early days of reddit I’ve wanted tags, it would avoid a lot of noise. Sometimes I wonder if lemmy is broken when I see all the topics again that I voted on and marked as read earlier. Or maybe I’m losing my mind.
Connect (an amazing Canadian lemmy app) automatically shows all the communities a post has been crossposted to above the comments, and shows comment numbers for each of the cross posts. Its made my experience so much better. Theres a ton of other benefits to the app too, and the dev is super quick to respond to any issues. Can’t recommend it enough.
That assumes the “mirrored” communities are mirrors of each other. The instance that the community is hosted in really affects the community.
That assumes the “mirrored” communities are mirrors of each other. The instance that the community is hosted in really affects the community.
i think we’re speaking about different things. i’m just talking implementation details.
I’m talking about implementation.
A lot of people come into Lemmy assuming that the federation is uniform when it isn’t. There are two different groups of people between .world and .ml, let alone more specialized instances.
Just because the community name is the same doesn’t mean the community is the same.
you’re not talking implementation? you’re talking social aspects. i was just saying that the concept of a “community”, as in the lemmy version of the “subreddit” concept, is too coarse to handle federation.
It isn’t. The full name, including everything after the @ is the name of the community. They act differently and should be treated different.
To put it another way using email as an example, we wouldn’t treat matt.smith@gmail.com as the same as matt.smith@bbc.co.uk.
sure, but that’s not really relevant. replacing communities with tags is just part of a solution. instance filters are a separate thing. that’s why it’s too coarse; one instance can defederate another, but an instance can’t block a specific community on another.
I absolutely agree, there is no need to post in a lemmy.ml community.
But that font you’re using…
Love it! It gives me joy!
Off topic, how did you manage such a potato screenshot?
The screenshots on my phone always turn out like this for some reason 🤷.
On my phone screen which is a low end Samsung it doesn’t look potato. Guess you’re just out of luck if you have some high res screen or a retina iPhone or smth
I think it’s a Lemmy thing and depends on your instance, I remember reading something about compressed images a while ago
Do you know if you upload something to instance a, does it get copied to instance b like text or would it just link to the original upload?
I am not sure.
When I open the web UI, the thumbnail seems to be hosted on my home instance:While the image itself links to lemmy.world:
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/fb58d776-3f58-4fdd-9b19-1351bfe930e7.jpeg?format=webpI guess someone with potato quality needs to check how it behaves with their instance
no one wants this, but everyone is indoctrinated into writing it that way and changing it would be a herculean task, probably recommending the format via NIST, which probably requires a functioning government to adopt it on governmental websites and forms, so first we have to create one of those…
Kinda off topic at the moment but comment appreciated regardless 😅
