It seems that Lemmy instances don’t work well with each other. Following a community from another instance is finicky, and after following, threads and comments still don’t show up unless you manually pull each individual URL into your own instance.
Hi. This could be a problem of Lemmy.ml, that seems to be overburdened by the amount of traffic in the wake of the Reddit-Exodus. Not sure how to deal with this.
As this area contains next to nothing for now, it would be a possibility to move to kbin; but they seem to have similar issues atm. Smaller instances would also work, but would move the whole thing even further out of the scope. Maybe it would be best to wait until the situation improves here? Not quite sure.
If we move away from Lemmy as software, the nearby alternatives would be a self hosted forum or going to matrix. Both variants have their benefits (more clarity and customization with a forum, more interactivity with matrix - and both variants would be more stable atm) and drawbacks (Workload, more isolation with a forum / Matrix is even less clear than Lemmy, and would make the project even more obscure).
What are your preferences in the whole question?
There are things I don’t like about Lemmy, but they are minor, not much of an issue. I don’t understand what good federation does here, but it does no harm either. It’s very light, I love that aspect. I tend to prefer traditional forums, but not all of them are good. Some are terrible, like they’re trying to kill off forums, hahaha!
But for me, personally, Lemmy satisfices, and it’s already in place.
I have tried Matrix once, didn’t like it. Could change my mind about that. But what would it be like? I need some structure, and I’d probably run away from something more chat-like.
The comment count also mystifies me. Several topics have a higher comment count than what actually appears in the topic. Since I only see that count when browsing directly from lemmy.ml, and therefore not logged in, my language settings can’t be the issue. I don’t know if there are comments that I can’t see or if the count is just wrong.
Yeah, at some threads the counter seems to be off. At least the downtimes are strongly reduced by now; do the problems with the communication from another instance still exist?
Yes. I browse from lemmy.ml since nothing new shows up in my instance, and if I want to reply to something, I have to take the comment URL and paste it into my instance’s search to retrieve it.
