No, that’s not how it works. Instances absolutely interact, that’s the whole idea of federation. It can get more complicated than that if you want to get into the details of how it works, but that knowledge isn’t in any way necessary to just use the platform.
Loving these development updates and it looks like you’re making good progress, I really appreciate all the work that you guys do. ❤️
I had a look at the join-lemmy redesign too, and it looks slick, much better than before.
Completely agree. I can think of many examples of an instance whose content I don’t want on my frontpage (foreign language instances for example) but whose users I still want to interact with in communities on other instances.
Dedicated users posting is the best way to slowly grow communities like that. It’s much less likely others will post if it seems like a ghost town, but if someone is posting others are much more likely to join in. And at the very least there’ll be content to engage with when new people find it.
This would be a great setting, especially if the toggle is easily accessible in the UI. I personally want to change between Top/New comments fairly frequently.
Feddit.nu upgraded to 0.18.3 and I can confirm Hot seems to be working now.
Top 6 Hours and New Comments are still both useful sorts, though.
The Hot algorithm seems to be working properly after the new update, even on a smaller instance. Feddit.nu just updated to 0.18.3 and I’m no longer seeing months-old posts on the frontpage when sorting by Hot!
And the database improvements are incredibly impressive, thanks for all the continuous great work!
There seems to be two bugs with the calculation. First of all the count doesn’t sum properly, secondly it resets to 0 when you delete a comment.
It’s also worth adding that Karma calculation on Lemmy - at least currently - is even more meaningless since it doesn’t work properly. Not only does it fail to calculate your score well [1], deleting a comment resets your total comment score to 0. [2]
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Not sure your example formatting for spoiler tags is correct, this is what it looks like on my end (using Jerboa)
Using Connect? The various third-party apps seem to have different troubles with Markdown, I get that same result viewing this post on Connect, but it seems to work fine on Jerboa.
It’s tricky to try out since it’s invitation-only. As far as I understand they want to focus more on long-form content and high-effort posting, so it’s not really a Reddit alternative per se.
As for Lemmy is Fun, it doesn’t look particularly likely, though talklittle (the dev) at least made a Lemmy account , so your prospects are at least better than fans of Baconreader. Maybe the future chances are at least non-zero, provided Lemmy continues to grow.
I wouldn’t get my hopes up, though.
Thunder was the first I tried two weeks ago but didn’t really like it at all. Maybe it’s time to try it again, though it seems I have trouble logging in on it now.
I used to like Liftoff the most, but something changed in the last update and I don’t like the new appearance of the feed as much.
I still go between it, Jerboa and Voyager and sometimes Connect. I don’t like how Liftoff handles replies in the inbox, for one reason. It also shows only combined votes, not separate up/downvotes, while Voyager and Connect require an extra click to vote/reply to comments.
Rubén created and maintained Boost for Reddit as a single dev as far as I know, and I would assume he’s doing the same for Lemmy. I don’t think he was ever frequently communicating on Reddit either, only now and then. Plus, he wasn’t going to create a Lemmy version of Boost initially, so it really hasn’t been in development long.
You just have to be a little patient.
I’m still cycling between apps almost daily, and none so far ticks all the boxes for me. I have Liftoff, Connect, Jerboa and Voyager on my phone right now. I tried Thunder a while back but didn’t like it.
Sync is on it’s way and it will come down to either that or Boost in the end for me, I think.
I think fanaticus.social was created to be the sports instance, but it is fairly new so I’m not sure any communities hosted there has taken off. It is what you’re looking for, though.
The Hot algorithm seems bugged at the moment, and the issue is particularly exacerbated for accounts on small home instances. I’m also getting weird front pages when sorting on Hot, so I stick to Top 1/6/12 hour sorting for now, and maybe Active occasionally.
Would be a great feature, trying to follow ongoing discussion in a thread you’ve already visited is annoying currently.