Until recently it was impossible to browse All due to an issue where it would auto-refresh the feed with multiple posts every second. This and similar issues necessitated a big rewrite to move away from websockets.
Then that was fixed, but it was fixed the same week as the Reddit API went down, so making sure everything was stable and stopped setting on fire under the unprecedented load became priority.
All kinds of other things are still going on, for example there are continuing issues with federation not working as expected which is literally the main feature of Lemmy.
Devs have to prioritise, and "nice to have" features might be a way down their list. That is ultimately the answer to the question in your title.
Nice! Bookmarked for when this inevitably keeps coming up in support threads haha :D
I've definitely found it to be a good way to get interactions going in smaller communities so far, if the topic has a decent presence on the Mastodon side. Can't quite decide if that's cheating or not but some of those communities need all the help they can get!
To(oth) be fair I have totally superglued a tooth back on in an emergency before and it worked pretty well. Probably could've saved a lot of time and money just letting him do it!
Yeah both of those use the Lemmy software. Kbin is separate software. It works pretty much the same way as Lemmy in terms of there being multiple Kbin instances, they're just running on the different software.
Fwiw you can post to both Lemmy communities and Mastodon at the same time, that does work pretty well, but it has to be from your Mastodon account and you tag the Lemmy community as a user. (First line of the Mastodon toot becomes the post title on Lemmy, fyi if you're going to try it, and you can tag the community at the end it doesn't need to be the first thing in your toot)
Not actually sure if that works the same way for Kbin magazines, I'm subscribed to plenty of them but most of them are kind of inactive so never had chance to test it. If anyone's done the science and can report back, that would be interesting to know!
Having worked with all kinds of languages, I stand by my belief that PHP is the most fun.
Yeah maybe it lets you do some things it probably shouldn't. Yeah maybe the naming conventions are wild. But it also encourages creativity and experimentation in a way that stricter languages just don't.
Just tried this and you're right, searching for a specific community seems borked.
Checking on GitHub, it looks like there's a commit just gone in to show the full community address on the search results page so that will at least solve part of the problem.
This isn't really anything to do with OP's issue, but I'll try and take a stab at an explanation of your thing.
The first time an instance "knows" about a community hosted elsewhere is the first time a user searches for it through that instance. If they subscribe to it, the community will also now show up in that instance's "All" feed.
So your question naturally follows. If your instance doesn't know about communities elsewhere until the first person tells it, how can you find communities your instance doesn't know about yet?
That's where tools like Lemmyverse come in, this let's you search for communities hosted anywhere.
Hope that makes sense, writing this from my phone so excuse any typos etc.
I'm not sure exactly how the sorting algorithms on Liftoff differ (if at all) from the core Lemmy ones. But as far as the latter go there's definitely an issue with it surfacing old posts in "hot" sort on the web UI too.
Check out lemmyverse.net/communities, it'll let you search (almost) everything without being limited by your instance, and you can sort by whatever criteria you want.
People are going to be people wherever you go, there's sadly no getting away from the negative side of that. It's not a Reddit problem, it's not a Lemmy problem, it's a humans problem.
That said, there's plenty of good people engaging in friendly discussion too (again this also applies to Reddit). If you're constantly seeing content that makes you mad, perhaps it's time to rethink your subscriptions. If you're frustrated at people being people, well, we all feel that way sometimes but you can't change human nature so best just to have a nice cup of tea and calm down for a bit.
You're obviously pretty emotional right now from the tone of this post, and that's fine we've all been there and ranted on the internet. But a bit of perspective away from the screen would probably help.
And of course, leaving Lemmy is a totally understandable action. Just like leaving Reddit or any other website. That's all these are, at the end of the day, they're just websites where we pass the time. Use them lots, use them sparingly, or don't use them at all, but either way there's much more important things to worry about in life.
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Until recently it was impossible to browse All due to an issue where it would auto-refresh the feed with multiple posts every second. This and similar issues necessitated a big rewrite to move away from websockets.
Then that was fixed, but it was fixed the same week as the Reddit API went down, so making sure everything was stable and stopped setting on fire under the unprecedented load became priority.
All kinds of other things are still going on, for example there are continuing issues with federation not working as expected which is literally the main feature of Lemmy.
Devs have to prioritise, and "nice to have" features might be a way down their list. That is ultimately the answer to the question in your title.