I really like this design. Well done!

Looking at it on my desktop right now, I’m seeing everything I’d expect, for both local and federated communities. Most typically lately, I’m browsing on my phone, but that’s just hitting my instance directly via mobile Firefox, not using an app, so I can’t imagine that would have meaningfully different results.

Sounds most likely that this is just a perceptual thing where I’m not consciously realizing that communities Y and Z are posting way more frequently than community X, making me feel like I’m “missing” posts from X that are then trivially found when I go to X directly.

I’ll keep an eye out for this a bit more consciously for the next little while and see if that’s what’s actually going on.

I’m sorting by New. My expectation was a linear chronological feed of posts across all subscribed instances. And yeah, I’m still missing some posts in that view.

Yeah, this is me. Coming up on two decades in game dev, and I’ve always cared way more about building things that are genuinely robust and also make sense to humans, but everyone just wants “fast and cheap”, thinks documentation is a waste of time (“you can just talk to people”), doesn’t understand “tech debt” as a concept at all, and refuses to prioritize tools work because “it’s not player-facing”.

All software is rushed software.

Do not, under any circumstances, attach your sense of self-worth to your games.

Never make game development your identity. Let it be a thing you do, not a thing you are.

Build a community outside of game development as soon as possible, even if you’re an introvert. You won’t understand why this is so important until the day you need it and don’t have it.

This is the first I’ve ever heard of Fossil, and it honestly seems really interesting! Having the executable be both the local CLI for working on the repo and the server for providing the whole GitHub-esque suite of services in a trivially self-hostable fashion is kind of galaxy brain.

omg the absolute ~v i b e s~ on that thing 🤩

I’ve been out of the loop for the last ~5 weeks. What’s PV?

That is the front page/local feed of lemmy.world, which is just one instance of Lemmy (albeit a very large one). Another instance on a different server would likely have a very different vibe.

I’m on a smaller, more topic-focused instance, I subscribe to a handful of communities both inside and outside of that instance (including this one), and I browse by Subscribed, not Local or All. It’s a vastly more pleasant experience.

This is amazing ♥️

Could kill off desktop PCs

Linux has entered the chat.

You can do what 👀

and more importantly how hard it is to find anyone and anything else once you’re there

I find this perspective fascinating. It took me ten minutes to find two dozen Lemmy communities of interest, about 2/3 of which were on other servers than my home server. On Mastodon, it similarly took me ten minutes to follow a bunch of hashtags that sounded interesting, and it’s trivial to follow new people from those hashtags too.

I get that “it works on my machine” is never a very good excuse for dismissing someone else’s perspective, but I struggle to see what’s so much harder about the Fediverse vs Twitter or Reddit. I guess there’s the thing with Lemmy/Kbin about opening posts from your own instance so you can properly interact with them, which is weird, sure, but there are also like half a dozen solutions for it already, and they’re only going to keep getting better with time.

I feel like the Fediverse got a reputation for being difficult because somebody freaked out about picking a home server once, and now that reputation has become a self-justifying argument that “Fediverse is too hard” that gets parroted by people who haven’t even looked at it yet.

I recently switched to sorting by New, which sounds insane coming from Reddit, but Lemmy is much smaller right now, and New is actually viable and interesting.

I’m sure with more growth that will change, but it’s definitely kept my feed fresher and more interesting than either Active or Hot.

(This does of course assume that you’re subscribed to a reasonable number of communities you’re interested in.)

Ah yeah, this makes sense.

I have seen other services include an explicit SSO link under the user/pass form, which IMO is clearer what’s actually going on, but I’m sure that structure hopelessly confuses lots of less technical users, too.

Yeah, I see this one happen occasionally, and it makes me marginally less grouchy.

Following hashtags was a game-changer for me, for sure.

I’m one of the newer transplants from Reddit, but for the last several years I’ve only been a lurker there, because I haven’t felt like I really fit in with those communities and that culture well enough to fully engage.

Lemmy feels different, in similar fashion to how Mastodon felt so different from Twitter when I switched over there a year so back. I haven’t looked back on Twitter, and I doubt I’ll look back on Reddit. The water’s way nicer over here, for me.

I do think it’ll take a while for most of the disruptive newcomers to fully bounce off the Lemmy/Fediverse culture, but I also do think they will eventually bounce off it, as long as we all stick to our guns in terms of the culture we want to build, the rules with which we want to govern our communities and servers, and the social norms we want to tolerate.

There are just going to be 1973629092 tedious arguments about defederation between here and there. 🙄

I’m also finding it really effective. I only hate that backing out from a post is a crapshoot on whether it preserves my scroll position, resets to the top, or reloads the entire feed.

For three years now, I’ve put in real low scores and real critical comments on these things, and literally everyone I know at work says they’ve done the same (we are all so stressed) but then next quarter comes along and the execs share the survey results and wouldn’t you know it, engagement is great, the best it’s ever been, no problems here!

Amazing how that happens.