If I understand right, you can respond to a post if you arrive at it through your instance that you’re logged in to. If you find a post through Google or another link, you can’t just click “reply” - you have to find your way back to the post through your server.
I’m sure the devs are working on cleaning up that experience. Sounds complicated.
That’s actually one of it’s 25 jokes.
Thank you so much for your efforts in packaging it for Fedora, and for the clarity on the status! I deeply appreciate it.
I’m also new at this, and agree that it’s confusing.
I also think that subreddits were ready confusing at first. When reddit was new, I had to explain to people that the front page was garbage and that they had to find the right communities.
As the Lemmy ecosystem grows, I picture communities on certain servers becoming the clear winners, and the equivalent communities on other servers withering.
For example, I’m following the Linux community on both Beehaw and Lemmy.ml. I think the Lemmy.ml one is gonna be a lot busier, and folks will naturally gravitate towards that one. On Reddit it took me a while to figure out that /r/meirl was so much better than /r/me_irl.
I feel mixed. The shift towards COSMIC DE got me off of POP_OS. I wanted the newer Gnome features, and that stopped being their focus. I don’t wanna wait 2-3 years for a great DE when I already know I like Gnome. I switched to Fedora and use Pop Shell, and am really happy with my OS now. I also felt like the public shade between Gnome devs and S76 devs was tacky. With that said, I bet Cosmic is going to be great eventually. It’ll be great to have DE in the ecosystem with a focus on performance, UI, customizability, and actually looking good. Even if I don’t use it, I bet it’ll push the other big DEs to get better. Friendly competition is good. Also, it’s ridiculous that you have to go with a WM to get tiling, and that it’s not easier to get in Gnome. Real glad Pop Shell is still available, but I don’t think anyone’s maintaining it so it can’t last.
Personally, I like it here and will probably stick around. I hope the servers can scale, and that new communities grow.
I’ll still wind up looking at Reddit for meme content until it turns up here. There’s a lack of goofy pointless shit here currently.