It's not surprising as the motivations are quite different. Reddit wants their app to be a shitty Facebook clone while Memmy/Lemmy focus on the user experience.

These are the comments that make Lemmy great.

The idea of this app, which is desperately needed, is to allow those of us that are running a very small private instance to still get access to all of the communities. If you have a decent user base then you don't need this anymore as the users themselves will provide the functionality.

So in my case I am the only user on my instance so I am certainly not going to be hammering a bunch of instances just to send me updates of whatever total number of communities I'm subscribed to.

I can't help but wonder if this would be better served at the client level. Either way I miss this feature.

lemmyverse.net ?

https://github.com/jheidecker/lemmony

This will take care of the other commenters point about having to manually subscribe to everything. I just had it pull the top 500 communities from the top two instances and I'm fine...

I'm not sure either understand the fact Lemmy has language settings that aren't apparently used. Seems this can be solved by just setting the language to "English" for instance...

Man how many people even know what this is lol

As far as I can tell this is just an article where someone's theorizes Musk's plan?

Thank you very much for the work on this! I just created a topic about this and yours is the most interesting solution!

Voat was a replica of Reddit in design. One centralized server. We would have ended up in the same crappy place even if that were a success because at some point they would have wanted to monetize it also.

You have to do some reading and learn about the technology behind Lemmy and federation to understand.

Received at todayyoutomorrow.me

Thanks! I was hoping it would auto-sync and get the newest communities but I understand now how it works. Thank you!

Because stupidity.

https://github.com/jheidecker/lemmony

This one is really nice too. I created an issue with the developer to try to limit it to the top most active communities just to not get 7,000. :D

Agreed!

https://github.com/Fmstrat/lcs

Use this. It is exactly what we both wanted!

I hear ya and I'm open to learning, but your way I have to still use another instance to be exposed to new communities. In essence I can't have a Reddit "all" page... Is that correct?

I don't get how we can block. I long press anything and I get a browser menu...

EDIT: Figured it out!

Familiar with the Reddit story?