I use it whenever I'm typing with one hand only. It works very well IMO, on gboard at least.
WhipperSnapper
joined 2 years ago
Man, when I was getting into photography, that site was the holy grail of hardware decisions. It'd be a big loss if it went away, so this is great to hear.
I'm not sure what the cutoff is for indie these days, but I think the Ori games are perfect.
Very nice! What was providing the light in the foreground?
Oh I see, so even if the community is hosted on a different server, I can still search for and sub it. It just gets dicey if there are multiple instances of the same community on different servers. I guess then that's something that needs to be mitigated too, and I've seen other folks in this thread talking about fragmentation. Again, thanks for the info.
I will say there's a spark here that's been missing from reddit for a long time. Similar to how reddit felt before the digg folks came over. I'm enjoying it!
communities are server specific
Thanks for the info. I was actually under the impression that the opposite was true. Wouldn't that heavily incentivize joining an already popular server?
I think first of all we need a really good FAQ.
I think you're right. For example, I'm still unclear about communities across different servers. is /c/gaming showing me everyone's posts to /c/gaming, or just those from my own server? If I search for a community, will I see the results even if there's no instance of that community on my own server?
I agree with everyone saying this is critical to the success of the platform. It shouldn't take research to understand what you're signing up for, at least if anyone wants to see success in picking up where reddit left off.
While I agree with what you're saying in terms of seeing posts, the flip side is wanting to make a post visible to as many users are possible gets tougher.
Say I have a problem with my MicroSonySonic MPZoomPod that's driving me crazy to figure out, so I figure I'll post on Lemmy about it and see if anyone else has had that problem and a solution. In the reddit days, I just go to /r/MPZOOMPOD, or I google for "reddit mpzoompod" and find the subreddit. I can now post there knowing I'm hitting the entire community of mpzoompod users, or at least the majority of them. To do that on Lemmy, though, I now have to wonder if instead of a single community with 120k users, I have 12 communities with 10k users. So either I post to a tiny fraction of the communty, and thus have a much lower chance of getting my question answered, or I post the same thing to 12 different communites and have 12 different threads to keep track of for replies.
Obviously this is simplified, cause more likely there will be on big community somewhere, a couple other smaller versions, and then probably a couple completely devoid of posts from when people were first migrating to Lemmy and were excited to start communities.
Anyway, that was kind of a lot, but I think it really comes down to the subject matter. I don't need 5 versions of showerthoughts, and I don't care if showerthoughts has 1k subscribers or 1m subscribers, but if I really wanted showerthoughts to grow in popularity, the more people using one copy the better. Alternatively,it would be rad if /c/googlepixel or whatever wasn't fragmented so I could know I was looking at the most likely source of information.
It's all kind of an interesting thing to think about, and I can't decide just yet which way I'd personally prefer. I remember reddit before all the digg people piled in, and I liked how it felt more like a community back then, but I also can't disregard how incredible reddit has been in recent times for finding answers to specific questions, or getting news, or finding fans of a particular subject just because it became the default website to look for that stuff.