Yeah, that's because the direct link takes you to a different server.
Instead, copy the link, and in your instance click on the search icon up top, and do a search for it there. That'll give you a link relative to your server/instance. Click that and you're good.
Yup, definitely seems some polishing is needed. I know the devs are hard at work, and with the huge influx of users more OS devs are likely to jump on board to help out. I suspect the biggest complaints will get ironed out fairly quickly. At least I hope so!
The auto-refreshing front page is very frustrating to use.
Sounds like that's being fixed soon.
Ads and tracking.
So $$$.
They can force-feed ads to you and track your every click and sell that gobs of data to companies using it to make more $$ and to further develop their tracking to make yet more $$$
So, as always, the answer to such questions is: Money.
Not a bad article. A bit light on details and the effects and consequences of Reddit's changes. However, many articles I've seen from other mainstream news organizations were slanted towards the corporate bias and made it sound like the concerns were no big deal.
Yup.
Everything is interconnected. You can browse, post, etc, on any community on any interconnected instance.
For a full list of all communities on all instances, look here:
If you want to get to that community from your instance, click on the 'copy' symbol and then in your instance do a search for it.
aggregation feeds from multiple instances are a feature being looked at for the future.
I'm glad to hear this! I'm assuming it'll be something similar to multi-reddits?
I hate the way the threads are constantly being re-arranged as new ones appear. It makes it much harder to read through them when they keep moving around. There should be a setting to turn that off.
I've read that's actually a known bug that is being actively worked on. It sounds like this should be fixed fairly quickly, with any luck.
That's interesting, because I always used the old.reddit interface and hated the new one. Lemmy reminds me of old.reddit so I'm very happy with it.
Reddit had the same issue. Often there were multiple subreddits created for the same topic. Usually, eventually, one would win out. I expect the same thing will happen here.
Another solution on Reddit, of course, was to create a multireddit that included all of these subreddits. I'm not sure if that's possible on Lemmy at this point, but if not I hope it's something that gets implemented. It immediately solves that issue.
In the meantime, just subscribe to all of the similar communities.
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Ugh.... That marketing language makes me cringe hard.
Yup, I created that one just a few days ago! Thanks for noting it!