Also all books you lend from the library should be public knowledge.

Terrible analogy. You can consume the post without anyone knowing. Voting is more akin to signing the guestbook.

As long as the advertisers and corporate bullshit stays on the for-profit solutions and doesn’t start bleeding into everything else, this is fine. Hopefully they’ll act as a wick and draw the corporate interests to themselves.

Cross-posts on Lemmy show links to the other posts on each of them, so you wouldn’t be missing out on anything - you’d just have to click through to the other posts from the one you could see, rather than seeing multiple copies of it.

Their suggestion addresses this:

The UI could detect sibling cross-posts and suppress multiple mentions of the same post if you’re subscribed to multiple sibling communities, maybe with a “cross-sibling post” designation. That way it only shows up once in your feed.

A fair point, and I don’t think the people coming to Lemmy or Mastodon are the people who are happy with the status quo on Reddit or Twitter… it’s the folks who dislike those services for whatever reason, and are looking for an alternative. Lemmy and Mastodon just provide the smoothest point of transition.

In some respects it feels like many federated platforms have approached things backwards, trying to rework a centralized structure to be distributed/decentralized, creating some of the awkward UX folks experience.

I think you’re right, but that this is also promoting faster adoption of the fediverse version of the apps. It’s a lot easier to say to someone, “Hey, here’s a FOSS alternative to this corporate app you already use, it functions the way you’re used to” than “Here’s a FOSS app that does something completely new.”

Once folks are interested in the fediverse through adoption of Lemmy, Mastodon, etc., it’ll be easier to get them interested in completely novel applications.

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The real problem (IMO) with it being automatic based on the URL is that it’d be impossible to isolate communities with radically different views or posting guidelines - for example, a conservative community and a liberal community sharing a comment section about a political article would be awful… neither group wants that, and it creates moderation problems - who would ultimately be responsible for moderation on the article’s comments? The content source itself? (That seems incredibly unlikely to end well.)

I think it’s an interesting idea, but there’s some major implementation hurdles and I’m not sure what an ideal solution would be…

This effect could be achieved if cross-posted links simply all fed back into the comment section of the first community it was posted to.

To maybe better explain that, let’s say I cross-posted a link to [email protected], and [email protected], [email protected]. Under such a system, all 3 of these posts (despite being to separate communities) would share a single comment section (in this case, the one from [email protected], since it was the “first” one I chose to post to)… so if someone opened the thread on [email protected], they’d see the same comments as someone on either other community.

This implementation wouldn’t require getting content sources on board, and would cooperate with instances that weren’t federated (by simply creating a separate comment section for any instance that isn’t federated with the “first” one the link was posted to).

This doesn’t help if two users post the same link to two separate communities, but it’s at least a little bit cleaner without requiring any external buy-in.

This is awesome, this is basically exactly what I wanted when first joining.

It’d be real neat to see something like this that could pull in your current subscription data, so you could filter it down to only communities you aren’t currently subscribed to. It’s difficult to find new ones when you’re already subscribed to a bunch… see something that looks up your alley, search it up, and find you’re already subscribed, then repeat.

They seemed to be pretty confused about what the fediverse is all about and likely joined due to misleading advertisements.

I think you just answered your own question. Those are probably folks who saw people talking about it on Reddit, and came to check it out without knowing how it worked. They’re also probably part of the subset who will not be here for long.

This describes me perfectly. Most of the alternatives I saw previously just ended up being coopted by the alt-right crowd who got chased off of Reddit. Lemmy (so far) represents what I want from an online community.

Well, I hate this. The whole reason for coming over here in the first place (for me) was to get away from as much corporate influence as possible. This is the last thing I want to see.