I wish when you subscribe for the first time from another instance it would populate it with the comments that viewers of that community from that instance see even if you can’t interact with old comments.
Finding a community then joining lot of times leads to the place looking dead until you view it from the instance of that community and all of a sudden see there is discussions there. But, return back to viewing from your instance and it’ll never populate with the old content and only the new.
Could be much worse, tbh. Another piece of software I run is called lotide. It’s a much simpler piece of software which has some appealing parts, but everything about each community you join starts from the moment you sign up. There could be a long history of really interesting posts, doesn’t matter. Every community you join it’s as if it was just created.
Yeah I’m honestly seeing this as a big turn off for users to join smaller instances, which is a goal many fediverse people want.
It really sucks that I made an account on a smaller instance for lemmy, and there were some technical difficulties/learning curve on my end to add a community (which I won’t run into if I stay on a large instance), but then even after I did add the community, there are no posts. I made a lemmy account since it allows you to save posts, which kbin atm can’t do. However, when I’m able to add the community on the lemmy account, there’s none of the previous posts, so I can’t save it.
I don’t know, I’m thinking they are probably about the same. Even though I’m trying both lemmy and kbin, I’m on a large kbin server and on a small lemmy server. I think that can make a bigger difference for the ignorant (me) than lemmy vs kbin. It can get kind of complicated to do some basic tasks, and I think it’s good if these aggregators can make it easier to do.
For Kbin, I am liking the way they organize my feed, but I think you can customize your filter/sort on lemmy to do the same. Plus they have the android mobile app Jerboa, so I’m sure the experience for the feed can be good (don’t have to keep resetting the filter the way I’m doing on browser [since I dont have an android phone])
Definitely feel free to make these accounts though :) It’s been cool, like a big experiment to make these two accounts. I have one on lemmy.studio and kbin.social
Doesn’t seem like it. When viewing a low volume community on kbin.social, I see zero posts and zero comments. View it from the original instance (lemmy.ml) and there are four posts in the past week, with three of them having comments. kbin.social became aware of the community two days ago according to the infobar. All of the posts were made prior to that date.
Edit: I’ve also been subscribed to it for two days from kbin.social.
Is this a Lemmy specific issue? I’ve never noticed that you seem to be describing with kbin. But I don’t really understand it. Do you have to subscribe to see posts on Lemmy? Cause on kbin, you can see threads fine for communities and instances you’ve never subscribed to. And when you do subscribe, you can see older posts and comments.
I’ve discovered countless Lemmy communities to subscribe to in the first place from viewing kbin’s equivalent of /all.
If I understand things correctly, communities from other instances aren’t going to appear on the front page of kbin.social until a user first subscribes to them. It’s good for getting exposure to active communities that you weren’t aware of, but some of the more niche and low volume communities from other instances aren’t going to start appearing until a user proactively goes looking for them.
I wish when you subscribe for the first time from another instance it would populate it with the comments that viewers of that community from that instance see even if you can’t interact with old comments.
Finding a community then joining lot of times leads to the place looking dead until you view it from the instance of that community and all of a sudden see there is discussions there. But, return back to viewing from your instance and it’ll never populate with the old content and only the new.
Could be much worse, tbh. Another piece of software I run is called lotide. It’s a much simpler piece of software which has some appealing parts, but everything about each community you join starts from the moment you sign up. There could be a long history of really interesting posts, doesn’t matter. Every community you join it’s as if it was just created.
Yeah I’m honestly seeing this as a big turn off for users to join smaller instances, which is a goal many fediverse people want.
It really sucks that I made an account on a smaller instance for lemmy, and there were some technical difficulties/learning curve on my end to add a community (which I won’t run into if I stay on a large instance), but then even after I did add the community, there are no posts. I made a lemmy account since it allows you to save posts, which kbin atm can’t do. However, when I’m able to add the community on the lemmy account, there’s none of the previous posts, so I can’t save it.
Does kbin have better post and comments retrieval than lemmy? If so I might use kbin at least for tracking communities.
I don’t know, I’m thinking they are probably about the same. Even though I’m trying both lemmy and kbin, I’m on a large kbin server and on a small lemmy server. I think that can make a bigger difference for the ignorant (me) than lemmy vs kbin. It can get kind of complicated to do some basic tasks, and I think it’s good if these aggregators can make it easier to do.
For Kbin, I am liking the way they organize my feed, but I think you can customize your filter/sort on lemmy to do the same. Plus they have the android mobile app Jerboa, so I’m sure the experience for the feed can be good (don’t have to keep resetting the filter the way I’m doing on browser [since I dont have an android phone])
Definitely feel free to make these accounts though :) It’s been cool, like a big experiment to make these two accounts. I have one on lemmy.studio and kbin.social
Doesn’t seem like it. When viewing a low volume community on kbin.social, I see zero posts and zero comments. View it from the original instance (lemmy.ml) and there are four posts in the past week, with three of them having comments. kbin.social became aware of the community two days ago according to the infobar. All of the posts were made prior to that date.
Edit: I’ve also been subscribed to it for two days from kbin.social.
Is this a Lemmy specific issue? I’ve never noticed that you seem to be describing with kbin. But I don’t really understand it. Do you have to subscribe to see posts on Lemmy? Cause on kbin, you can see threads fine for communities and instances you’ve never subscribed to. And when you do subscribe, you can see older posts and comments.
I’ve discovered countless Lemmy communities to subscribe to in the first place from viewing kbin’s equivalent of /all.
If I understand things correctly, communities from other instances aren’t going to appear on the front page of kbin.social until a user first subscribes to them. It’s good for getting exposure to active communities that you weren’t aware of, but some of the more niche and low volume communities from other instances aren’t going to start appearing until a user proactively goes looking for them.