Fighting against anti-lemmy misinformation on reddit

Communist@beehaw.org to Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org – 27 points –
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Please check my post, I think everything I said is very valid, but I want this community to see it too, and help steer the discussion, I think reddit is doing this intentionally.

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@communist people say federation is an issue when you get multiple communities on the same topic. There is the "technology" community on beehaw, there is also the "technology" community on lemmy.ml, then there are countless communities named the same on other servers as well. But I do not think federation is an issue. I know of at least one site that has the same issue with multiple communities with the same name. And it is centralized. And it has no issue with that.

It's name is facebook.com

Edit: wrong phrasing

This is not an issue with federation, centralized services like reddit have the exact same problem, it's just a problem with anything that lets anyone build a community, really.

I've been using lemmy for all of like, an hour, but discovering communities is kind of a pain. Wish there was an instance/community browser inside my instance instead of going to a third party site, searching, opening, copy, and then pasting, then subscribing.

I really see no reason why https://browse.feddit.de/ is not integrated into the site.

Do you mean something other than https://beehaw.org/communities ? It has a local/all toggle and a search function. On the web interface, it's on the header of every page.

Yea. That will only show communities that members of beehaw are already subscribed to. And importantly, I’m not registered on that instance. That’s not the website I use.