Lenna

First step is to make sharing posts easier by integrating something like https://threadiverse.link/.

If I wanted to share your post with my friends, I'd send them the following link: https://piefed.ca/c/asklemmy/p/461864/what-should-we-be-doing-individually-to-increase-lemmy-s-userbase.

If my friends were also on Piedfed.ca, then all's fine. But if they're on a different instance and want to comment and/or vote on your post, then they're fucked. They would have to go on their home instance, look for !asklemmy@lemmy.world, and then search for your post.

I say friend, but this applies to literally everyone here except those who are already on Piefed.ca.

The Fediverse could improve how things are shared. If I wanted to share your post with a friend, I'll give them this link: https://piefed.ca/c/asklemmy/p/424338/what-do-you-feel-the-fediverse-could-improve-on.

If they're also on the same instance as me (Piefed.ca), then all's good. But God forbid they're on another instance and they want to comment or vote on your post. They would have to go back to their own instance, find this community, and then search for this specific post.

And I know some of you guys are itching to tell me about using a browser extension/script or another front-end to fix this, but this should be officially integrated with every front-end. I don't understand why there still hasn't been any integration with something like Threadiverse.

How can a social media grow if you can't even share posts properly?

Ah, okay now this makes more sense. I misread and thought he was the owner of CD Projekt, and he got his own company to sell GOG to himself. Thanks for the clarification!

Can someone who's more well versed in business explain what this means? From my understanding, nothing really changes as the owners of both GOG and CD Projekt is the same dude. But I'm sure there must be a reason why this was done.

Jumping between Boost and Summit.

Speaking of this, are there any PieFed users who have tried uploading images as a post through an app? Have you noticed that doing so counts toward your 50 MB upload quota, while uploading images on desktop does not count toward the quota?

Will this be a movie or will it be a season?

As long as you were happy doing nothing during the winter break, then that's all that matters. :)

It's an ongoing issue of the Fediverse that the Lemmy devs haven't been able to resolve. Some of my posts aren't visible on other instances, and there are some posts from other users that have wildly different number of comments depending on which instance you're viewing it from.

Because there's still a handful of basic stuff that still hasn't gotten sorted out yet for some reason.

Like if I wanted to share your post with my friends, I'll send them this link: https://piefed.ca/c/nostupidquestions/p/377144/why-isint-lemmy-more-popular. If they're using a mobile app, then it might be fine. But if they're on desktop and want to comment or vote here but aren't already on my instance, they need to go back to their home instance, search up this community, and then search for this post. Why isn't there some sort of native way where I can just click on a button and have it open up in my home instance? Or even better: integrate something like threadiverse.link into Lemmy/PieFed so it immediately redirects me to my home instance's version on this post.

And before someone suggests using a different front-end or using a browser script, I appreciate you trying to help but my issue is why this isn't even natively part of Lemmy. And I'm not even sure if it's in the pipelines for V1.0.

Another issue is that there are still posts that don't federate properly. And it's not because an instance was defederated. What posts I see on this account might never be visible from a separate account. What is even more frustrating is that sometimes, I can't even force my instance to fetch the post. I'll give it the direct link and it still can't find the post on my instance.

As long as these basic issues remain unresolved, Lemmy will not become popular. A site can't be popular if I can't even share a post to my friends properly. Or if I can't even see the post, then I wouldn't be able to share it with anyone!

Edit: added clarification

That is indeed true. Only issue I can see is the copycat community might not outgrow the older community. And I think people tend to gravitate towards the larger community if there are multiples of them. Especially newer users who won't know of the power tripping mods and will just assume it's an ordinary community. But let's hope new users joining the Fediverse have better critical thinking skills and start asking questions if they see a community with a strong and active copycat community.

This can happen on the Fediverse as well, though. It might not happen at the same scale as on Reddit over here due to the public modlog, but mods can still ban people for no legitimate reason.

There are lots of other reasons why Reddit sucks. But mods power tripping isn't unique to them. We have our own fair share of power tripping mods and community hoarders that migrated here from Reddit.

There's a video of Kowloon Walled City from a university student (Suenn Ho) if anyone wants to see how it looks like from the inside. It's incredible how people even managed to live there.