There’s only a few things I need to figure out and Lemmy can become a permanent home. Third party apps in development are all showing great potential, so I’m not worried about that. I’m currently using wefwef but have tested mlem and soon memmy and they are all great (or appear to be trending towards great).
Good post/question; been wondering similar last couple weeks. Have to say I’m beyond impressed with the mobile offerings, and the speed at which they’re being developed.
One thing I’m curious about is that since there’s no “central” I find it a bit confusing to know what communities to look for on other instances. Does setting it to all allow me to see posts from all other instancees that are federated and have been pulled in by other users of my instance?
Setting it to all shows you posts from all federated instances. As for the communities, I’m guessing as more people sign up and lemmy becomes more popular there’s gonna be some that are going to become the “main” ones. I’ve seen someone on github suggest they should add hashtags and use that to group all communities with the same name from different instances so that might become a thing
Ah cool that hashtag idea sounds promising—I’d certainly welcome a way to “group” a bunch of similar topic communities under one sort of view.