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I think most people would agree with the sentiment, but it’s probably a side effect of people being a bit lost.
If you can’t find the community or discussion where you could contribute more niche information, having the general reddit exodus topic at least lets you participate.
And I think that is the common thread of optimism. Even with the confusion and the jank, it still feels good to be somewhere welcoming and new.
How federalization works can be a bit confusing. For me the biggest hurdle to get over was how the different instances - lemmy.ml and lemmy.world - are separate websites. They can connect and interact with each other because they’re federalized, but your account is only on lemmy.world.
Now for some magic!
Relative links for communities (subreddits) can work across instances:
As long as your instance knows the community exists the links should work.
It felt a bit off at first to not have the top comments all be the ones with the most votes, but I like how it works on lemmy after spending time here.
You can join an old thread and not feel like it’s pointless to add to the discussion!
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The hard part is that while you can have relative links to communities (/c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml) it doesn’t work for individual posts, threads, or comments.
I assume it’s a difficult problem because those would have different ids in different instances?
I think many people were looking for a reason to leave but kind of felt stuck seeing all the alternatives being either dead or abrasive.
Lemmy seems to have captured the soul of what a significant portion of people have already been looking for.
It also coincides nicely with web3 becoming a less nebulous thing and investors starting to shift their focus from user created content to practical applications of ai.
The ol’ switcheroo on lemmy would be a great way to teach people how to do inter-instance links! I don’t think it’s possible right now to link specific threads or comments, but it would definitely be a fun way to show how federation works.
I’ve already mentioned a few times here how I have similar feeling. An added effect to that is actually leaving comments again.
At some point I stopped really engaging with reddit and became a passive lurker. I thought I simply grew out of it, but maybe it’s more about how the site stopped feeling like a community.
Or how it started feeling like everything on reddit eventually became a witch hunt of one flavor or another. The days of karmanaut or years later unidan may as well be forgotten history to modern redditors. If they’re brought up it’s for the drama or the cringe.
The feeling of actually enjoying them and how the community interacted with itself at that time has been lost.
I’m feeling the same way, but I suppose we’ll soon see.
Even if the reddit exodus doesn’t turn into another internet legend, I am enjoying having fun participating in a forum for the first time in a long time. Probably since reddit stopped feeling like one in the early 2010s.
I saw it somewhere on lemmy shortly after joining. I then left the tab open thinking it’d be useful but unfortunately lost the thread!
It’s not exactly obvious how to make them, so here’s a more clickable link for all instances: amateur_radio
I’ve stumbled upon this site that seems to be similar?
Socks are not “just as good” as coffee filters.