About the same when you ask for a good GUI replacement for X and someone replies "just use the command line", like cheers for that men, not what I'm asking for.
AnonymousLlama
joined 1 year ago
Cheers for the list. Great to keep an eye open for alternatives. What I'm looking for right now is a good GIT client for Ubuntu.
On windows I've got Sourecetree, it's free and got a really simple UI.
I've found a single program, SmartGit that looks decent but apparently it's just a trial version and they've got licenses. I haven't really found anything as a good substitute
I'd argue one of the most pressing concerns right now is the lack of migration tools
Currently you can't just create an account on instance X and move to Y. You need to create a new account. Eventually if we get the functionality to migrate from one place to another, people will be able to spread out across the fediverse and the risk of a single big server going belly up reduced.
From a technical standpoint if one instance gets defederated from other instances, all the users on that instance are stuffed. Their content won't appear in the wider fediverse (so less engagement)
I think it's probably the shortcut to open it, I've already forgotten it and I just read it a few seconds ago. Something you'd need to use a few times to get used to
Super strange that something like this would be language specific, considering it's all Unicode characters behind the scenes, the emojis anyway yeah?
Dispelling the myth of a universal "Lemmy" community, and discussion of what the fediverse really is
Exactly, at the start of the growth phase for new sites, people want things to look stable. Seeing drama from Z site because Y site disconnected from them can look pretty unappealing
Dispelling the myth of a universal "Lemmy" community, and discussion of what the fediverse really is
People also need to be mindful that the concept of the fediverse isn't a simple one, not to the majority of people who use Reddit / other sites. We want to try and streamline the process of searching for, signing up to and contributing to content, at least if we want these platforms to continue to grow.
We don't need the 400+ million that Reddit has but having more interested users will help generate more content / engagement
I'd say for the majority of people who are coming here from Reddit, the concept of federated servers and looking for duplicates would be a pain. I think most people who come to a site like kbin search to see if there's a local community and if not would want to create it.
Admins I'd assume would be able to search connected other sites to see if a community exists elsewhere, but that sounds like it puts more work on them when they're busy with PRs and infrastructure work.
I've got no idea about what the best approach is, but it needs to be somewhat simple it we want people to join and stick around I feel.
Kbin didn't get a mention, bit rough I feel ๐