SanguinePar

I don’t know if this is helpful or not, but you can do this on Sync for Lemmy. As a test, I just added you as a favourite and now you appear in my Favs list alongside my chosen top communities.

However I don’t know if there’s any way to create a feed consisting of all favourited people’s posts, which would be more useful IMO than having to check each individual favourited person. Will have a go and see if I can find a way.

EDIT: Couldn’t see a way to do it unfortunately, but have started a thread on the Sync community to see if anyone knows how.

Yep, OP’s link works for me, using Sync, with the link itself opening in the YT app.

There’s a similar idea discussed over here: https://lemmy.world/post/94448

Personally I’m hesitant about topic-themed instances (see my comment there), but there could be arguments for it.

Oh that’s good, hopefully it’s not a million miles from being accurate then! ;-)

Ah, I like that - a Lemmy provider, where Lemmy is not a place but a type of thing/service, like “an email” or “a website”

Agreed - so much of the internet in the last decade has been about platforms merging or simplifying or imitating others, so people have become much less use to having to learn new things.

Lemmy is like taking a step backwards to when everything wasn’t quite so slickly tailored to friction-free user experience, and having to trust oneself to make the odd step into the unknown.

But that’s ok, because that’s how we learn. One step at a time.

The biggest hesitation point for me was “instance” - it’s an odd choice of word IMO, and it made me immediately start thinking “I don’t know what that means, I don’t want to look stupid, I don’t want to get it wrong, I don’t want to make the wrong choice…” etc, etc, etc…

I got past it (obviously, since I’m here) but I think it’s something that could be better.

Particularly (and I realise that this isn’t the only use case) for people considering coming from Reddit. They understand that the structure is Reddit.com/subreddit/post/comment

Obviously comments and posts match up between Reddit/Lemmy, and “communities” are basically the same as “subreddits” so that’s ok.

But “Instance” doesn’t really have an equivalent, especially when you consider “Lemmy” to be equivalent to “Reddit”

In a way though, I feel like Lemmy is not equivalent to Reddit really. In fact Reddit would maybe be more equivalent to an instance - except that it’s the ONLY instance in that particular space. Whereas with Lemmy, there are loads of similar and interacting but nonetheless distinct 'Reddit’s

Maybe the metaphor for new users needs to be, imagine if there were dozens of 'Reddit’s, that were independent of each other, but which could (usually) talk to each other, so you only needed to join one to see (almost) anything on any of them.

I dunno, maybe this is all nonsense, I’m just kind of musing on it as a very new user of Lemmy who is enjoying it but find it hard to explain in a way that appeals to people stuck at the same hesitant stage I mentioned in my first paragraph.

I don’t know of any single full documentation, but one immensely useful link someone posted is to https://browse.feddit.de/

There you can much more easily search for communities than the native search seems to allow.

On no don’t tell me Candlejack has appeared on Lemmy alr

Something something too much time wondering if they could and not if they should… ;-)

Ah ok - could be a Jerboa thing too - can see Riker there, but it’s a static image in Jerboa. Works on a browser though (as does my MP4, actually)

Not an opinion, but a question - would syncing content from Reddit potentially overwhelm both Lemmy’s servers and its organic content? If posts madenon Lemmy are mixed in with the tidal wave of Reddit material, might that put people off posting on Lemmy at all? Possibly not, just wondering.

EDIT: Oh, do GIFs not work? I’m maybe doing it wrong.

Wow 7000 users last month, 75000 currently!

EDIT - I’ve since realised that I’ve messed these numbers up a bit - last month was 45k, not 7k!