I’ve noticed that some people do use other filters than “Hot” or they scroll back in smaller communities, because I’ll occasionally get comment replies to posts I made months ago. It’s cool to see.

Does the Active feed work this way?

I remember you! I see posts all the time and notice “Ah, it’s that Sag fellow again”

<3

I think still yes, when a problem is abundantly clear, but borderline cases can more easily be left to individual preference.

I’ve noticed that too. I thought it was a different technology community popping up for a while.

That would be helpful. I have a Mastodon account that I’m pretty much just using to post my OC trek memes (plus some of my favorites from Risa), and being able to crosspost both ways would be nice.

Oh I see! That would be awesome.

I don’t really know how to navigate GitHub to see more detail, but how would this improve the cross-posting function that already exists?

I’ve used it a handful of times and it seems pretty straightforward.

For whatever anecdotal observations are worth, I’ve recently been seeing a huge uptick in activity from the userbase that is here. Maybe it’s been driven by posts like this one or memes about growing Lemmy, but people seem to be posting and commenting more than usual.

Carry on, Ensign.

I tried Kbin, but I don’t know why it just never clicked with me. I kind of like the barebones lemmy UI.

Also, the instance I’m on has an “old.reddit” style page that is really nice when I’m on PC.

It has to be something like that. I figure you would definitely have seen some of this too. lol

Oh wait, yeah. I’ve seen that too.

Why did I click on this?

I get what you’re saying, but I see it more like:

Car show #1 charges $75 admission, you have to wear the color shirt they approve of, and no Ferraris (the organizer just doesn’t like them)

Car show #2 and #3 aren’t run by weirdos, so the car community still has somewhere to go.

It sucks to have the crowd spread out, but I still think it’s an overall gain to be decentralized.

I think it’s probably the #1 hardest thing to adjust to for new people joining Lemmy. That said, I also think it’s a good thing to not have all of our eggs in one basket. Like, if we have 4 communities about classic cars, and one starts making weird moderation decisions, users don’t have to leave Lemmy altogether.

D’aww, you guys

Scruffy believes in this platform

It’s great. It’s fun to try to grow communities.

I even like finding similar communities being scattered around the fediverse. Not being centrally owned by anyone (including a single instance) is what makes this different from reddit.