SeeJayEmm

The server sidebar has clickable links to external communities, so there's gotta be a way.

How hard if it to offer a nominally feed as free experience?

I just think we should kind of chill on trying to 1-for-1 replicate Reddit

I don't think I want (or was asked for) a 1-to-1 replica of Reddit. Like I said, I get the pros of open source and federation. I'm just pointing out an immediately apparent pain point that I'd like to see be addressed at some point.

I don't want to agree with you but I do. It's Paradox so I'm guardedly hopeful.

There's pros and cons to both centralization and decentralization. I like the idea and the goal of decentralization and federation but you run into issues like this, that are counter-intuitive and will be a road block to broader acceptance. Especially with smaller communities.

I think having the option to aggregate those communities into one view could bridge that gap. Have it be optional. Heck, even allow users/servers to block specific communities if they want.

I like the idea of Lemmy but I don't like the idea of having to subscribe to 7,10,15 different versions of a topic of interest spread across 25 different servers. Let me sub to "Technology" and have a toggle to display "all Technology communities across federated servers".

I know it's all about "engagement" but I feel like this is still driving traffic to the site. Which is kinda the opposite of leaving it.

Yeah. I clicked the link and I was presented with a "you must login or signup" to interact with it because it's on a different server.

Box I built around a AMD Ryzen 7 3800X, running Ubuntu 22.04 and a handful of qemu VMs (owncloud, pihole, checkmk, etc..) A hand-me-down qnap I keep threatening to put truenas on but haven't yet. A couple libre computer (pi alternative) boards. A couple tp-link managed switches.

On my to-do list are to deploy an old Dell mini as an OpnSense box to replace my router.

I tend to only upgrade the PC when I start to feel it, but I don't see the deck changing that. I'm a kbd+mouse gamer at heart and there's too many games I'd just prefer to play that way, in front of a bigger screen.