Subscribe to both, whenever a post in one is made, copy it to the other to receive that sweet sweet karma

The rival platform is "Kick" in case anyone wants to not open the article but still wants to know which it is.

Äh, das Problem ist ja gerade erst entstanden durch installierte Updates. Zu sagen, dass das Problem nie gefixt wird, weil ja keiner Updates installiert, macht da einfach nicht mal logisch Sinn.

Stop using "All" "Hot/Active/Top" feeds and go search for actual content communities you want, by browsing the community lists, searching for your interests, or looking at new. Then just go to "Subscribed".

Just wanted to say in general, federation is not instant. So if some user upvotes or comments on a post, it might be instantly there on the instance it was done on, but may take some time to get to all other instances.

That said, there definitely are likely also bugs still around. Part of what you're saying sounds like it. Can't help you with it though, needs to go to the devs/admins.

I mean many communities still need people to actually create posts, this one is the same. That's the thing about early adoption, you're going to have less content at the start for you to lurk through.

However, if there is content, it's usually good and you get nice comment threads, pretty much like reddit from the old old days, so that's nice.

Maybe you'd want to post some? Also don't forget to vote :D

To expand, every user has their custom set of content that they want to see, which needs to be queried from the database. Mainly their subscriptions, those will rarely be the same between any two users, and they need to be aggregated according to the sorting method the user wants. Or other personal things, like every user's messages/replies/notifications/settings.

For any such questions, just go go the /instances page of whatever instance you want to check federation for.

The lemmy.sdf.org/instances page shows lemmy.ml under "Linked instances", so whatever you're experiencing seems to either be a bug or no one has subscribed/searched for these posts/communities, so it hasn't been loaded yet. But since I assume you did that, it's probably some bug.

You could honestly say this about most of reality.

It's not really about the confusion, it's just unnecessary complexity. Magazines and communities for example are completely equal concepts, the only difference is the name for some reason, probably marketing or some such.

Yeah honestly I've seen so many posts with multiple paragraphs explaining federation, while I've just been telling my friends two sentences like "it's just like reddit but instead of one website there's multiple independent ones (called instances) that all see each other's content. All content on all those instances can and should only be accessed through the website you signed up on, and when you do that it works basically completely like reddit"

This leaves out a bunch of information of course, but if they want more, they can always be confused and ask or look it up themselves.

Wenn du da wirklich einen Vorteil siehst, dann würde mich interessieren, welchen.

Der Nachteil ist nämlich, dass wenn du bei ein paar großen und ein paar kleinen communities subscribed bist, du die kleinen einfach niemals im Feed sehen wirst, weil sie viel weniger upvotes haben. Manche communities, denen man subscribed ist, nie zu sehen, kommt mir wie ein dealbreaker-Nachteil vor, egal was es für Vorteile hat.

Also works on Android on Firefox with TamperMonkey, that's what I'm mainly using it on. Also only tested it on Firefox, no idea about Chrome or anything else.

There should be no vote, it should just be decided between the lead devs. Users will follow and largely not care.

I don't think it's even close to the same. It's more like forum software everywhere calls a post a "post" and a reply a "reply" and not something else.

Both sites are link aggregators, both sites have sub groups that are meant for a specific topic that links can be posted to, this concept should have a name.

Do you know kbin developers political views?

Shameless plug für mein Script, dass Links intern gehen lässt wenn möglich: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/469273-lemmy-rewrite-links-to-home-instance

(wenn man eh schon so am Scripts installieren ist)

Wenn du witziger sein möchtest, stecke nicht die Pointe in den Titel.

Yep, clients/UIs need to detect links to other instances and automatically reformat them to instance-local links. Configurable and indicated cleary that this happened, with a clickable icon next to it and resulting popup or some such.

Of course there are, there's lots of cool people in the world. However, it's still disheartening to see that the vast majority is not.

When you go around anywhere, you've got to expect that 95% are just ignorant or don't care. But 5% of people that do care is still a lot and for me enough to not be completely discouraged.