Still better than the official reddit app.

watching the Fediverse explode while various corporate entities implode is just popcorn entertainment.

Agree

To be honest I’m still skeptical of the Fediverse

The first time I heard about the fediverse I thought it was something different, I thought it was decentralized in the sense that users act as servers in a torrent-like system. This federation thing seemed strange to me at first but I think it's still better than the usual platform controlled by a few people.

The only thing I see problematic to integrate into a reddit-like site is the presence of multiple communities with the same name belonging to different instances. Right now this is probably not helping lemmy's image.

I hope more communities move to lemmy, especially the mental health/support ones.

As for lemmy in general, I have to say that apart from the lack of videos, it's not bad at all, even the android apps are already better than the official reddit one (terribly slow for some reason).

Some time ago there was Zeronet (abandoned) that worked like this. The problem was that the speed of the site depends on how many users share the data and for heavy things like videos it was a catastrophe. On zeronet there was even a social network similar to facebook/twitter called ZeroMe: https://zeronet.io/docs/it/img/zerome.png

It was a really cool project, it's a shame it's not being developed anymore.

That’s what makes it better than reddit. It can’t so easily be controlled by just a few people, because if one community/magazine on one instance gets overrun with toxicity, you can start a mag/comm with the same name on another instance.

absolutely, I am not against this kind of decentralization.

What I meant is that something could be done to collect the communities posts under one collection to make it easier for the user to join/see the communities content.

For example, if you subscribe to c/Technology you are subscribed to all the c/Technology communities (optional) in the federation. But this brings with it the problem of duplicates and I don't think there is an easy way to avoid it, and obviously different communities may have different rules.

Put simply: being able to subscribe to collections.

I say this because it seemed to me, at least initially, that for new users this presence of multiple communities with the same name was annoying and confusing.

I'm using liftoff:https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.liftoffapp.liftoff&pli=1

Apk of liftoff if the google play won't let you install the app: https://github.com/liftoff-app/liftoff/releases/tag/v0.10.1

others: https://lemmy.world/post/465785 and https://lemmy.world/post/401441

Check that your instance is correct (lemmy.world) and try again when the server works better. Right now the server seems to be having a lot of trouble loading pages, etc, and maybe that's why it's not working for you.