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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Methinks this will pass, or at least get better. Some degree of community centralization will happen. I don't think (and also don't want) complete centralization to happen, but I expect a we'll reach a fairly agreeable middle-ground. Lemmy and the fediverse have been around for a bit, but this is still early days.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I think so too but I just found this funny (and a little inconvenient). Also, this still happens from time to time in Reddit too.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I don't think this is a fundamental problem with the fediverse. Reddit has many repeated post in many communities too. I think once the algorithm gets better, this problem will go away (like down ranking repeated link or even linking these post etc).

Lemmy suffer from the same problem, but not as bad as you shown here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A huge part of the issue is rooted in the lack of other content coming in to bump 'sync' news - compounded by the fact many platforms are streaming "all federated instances" as the main suggested sort - which means that each subcommunity and magazine across all platforms have their own submission of the story and all of those repeats are being delivered to the /m/all frontpage.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yup. There needs to be some de-duplication code, somehow.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

you have to admit though, sync for lemmy is big news

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

No shade to the developer, but based upon how long the last Sync rewrite took, it might not be relevant news for a long, long time.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yeah, I'm really excited for kbin to come in to its own, because rn it feels like every post is about reddit. I get why, it makes sense, but that's not what I'm here for.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I feel ya, but honestly I am also kinda relieved to see people talking about it. I want updates [not forever, but for now] and I also don't want to support Reddit in the meantime.

I also think of it like this:
If someone hands me a microphone and tells me to be funny, I fail. I won't be funny, I doubt I'll even make sense. I would need to prepare. Putting me on the spot is antithetical to the creative process.

I think the most difficult thing about this situation is this - we all know that we need to contribute here to keep it going. But it needs to come naturally. Part of that natural process is all of us talking about the metaphorical shipwreck we were just in. I'm sure it'll pass, but in a sense, the ship is still sinking lol

Anyway, sorry for the stream of consciousness. I agree with you, I wish we'd move on. I bet in 2 months, we will.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Give it a few weeks. It was the same on Mastodon during heights of the #TwitterMigration. Everyone was talking about how they left the ship, what's different about the new place, and keep talking about the sinking ship.

After a while the new place felt familiar and that talk got less, and those meta-conversations were replaced with conversations about other things. If we get to that on Kbin eventually, that'd be great.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It gets a lot better if you switch to your subscribed feed. The Reddit-focused communities are very active, and the posts float high.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I recognize this cycle from the early days of reddit~!

  1. Story takes over frontpage.
  2. People make posts complaining about the story taking over the front page.
  3. Next up: posts complaining about the posts complaining about a story taking over the frontpage.
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Apparently the picture was too big for kbin since it got cut but it was basically eight times the same post about Sync for Lemmy being in development.

I'll upload it to somewhere else if someone just recommends me a service that works without signup.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It does show up in its entirety, click the icon pointed to here

Also you can always upload to good old Imgur without sign up

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I see, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I'm surprised how everyone has this issue but me.

Yeah there's lots of reddit-related content, but not at this scale

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I know some instances require individuals to fill out a form as part of the sign up process. I wonder if people would be in favor of that as a verification method if it meant limiting the amounts of bots and spam.

That said I don't know how effective that would be with Lemmy federated

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