People get these things mixed up all the time, it is more complicated to explain.
But it's not more complicated to use, somebody who doesn't even know about federation can use lemmy just fine, provided they're given the link to an instance.
this is the only thing that would trip such a person up: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1048
I don't get why we still haven't figured out that dictatorships are bad.
Reddit is a content dictatorship, federation democratizes it.
It's really just that simple.
They basically try to centralize the platform.
No, they don't, I don't know why you think that, this is really what federation is all about, seamless communication between servers, all they do is make it so that linking to different posts across the fediverse doesn't log you out, or remove you from your instance unnecessarily
The other one ALLOWS you to categorize subreddits. Neither of these are bad things in any way, and if you don't like them, you can manually visit other instances, and simply not use the multireddits.
I like how Lemmy allows for sort of duplicate communities. Reddit already had that issue and people naturally flocked to the communities that had the content that suited them. I think it would behoove Lemmy to stay away from trying to centralize it all.
This won't change anything about that, it'll just sort them by category
Building a nice mobile android app Jerboa is pretty good but it needs some TLC. Timeouts happen frequently on my app and crash it/erase content I was reading
this isn't worth focusing on right now because: https://github.com/derivator/tafkars/tree/main/tafkars-lemmy
Provide better documentation/marketing materials for new users. I’m open to the idea of a centralized website where users can go to create accounts, learn about Lemmy, and maybe initially subscribe to popular communities
join-lemmy definitely needs an upgrade.
The proxy is hosted on the lemmy instance, it allows the reddit apps to interface with lemmy, it won't take up more space on the device than the app itself.
One of the last things i'm worried about on my phone is the amount of space I have, i'd rather have a fluid, native interface.
Because sync for reddit is absolutely better than the lemmy website in just about every feasible way.
https://github.com/derivator/tafkars/tree/main/tafkars-lemmy they should really just wait for this, honestly.
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1048
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1113
I think once these two issues are solved, the average user really isn't going to have any problem with lemmy.
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