Apologies if this isn't the right place to post this, please do advise
I have been very patient with some of the nuances / learning curves of lemmy. I think that In time these will be ironed out and we'll have a thriving user base. However, I do feel that these issues need to be resolved at the earliest because right now is the time many users are leaving reddit or looking for an alternative. If the situation arises that the issues that the community faces while using lemmy are not fixed in timely manner, then new users might simply decide to not stay here very long.
There are a couple of things that are bothering me, but among them are few that cause me to stop using lemmy after a while. I'll try to list them here simply for the fact that I couldn't find any space which felt suited for this. If any one of you knows where this will be better suited please let me know, or post it there.
Anyway, here's my list:
- I'm unable to subscribe to some communities. With some of them I was successful after I k interacted with them, but others like technology or android communities are still pending.
- after viewing a post, when I click back it often takes me back to the top. Facing the issue on both the web page and jerboa app
- sometimes, mander.xyz is unaccessible. The webpage gives an error that such a page doesn't exist while other communities still show up. Not sure why this is
- the main feed is still a mess. I have to visit the subscribed communities to get any real content from them, but the subscribed feed either shows old content or just spams from a few of them.
Other issues also exist, but I feel these are the ones that really need to be addressed.
Since there's a mod kind enough to spend time answer questions, could I ask a couple of things as well?
Is there a way to see whether mander has defederated from other communities?
I understand that defederated community content won't show when I'm signed in to a community that is not in federation with said communities. But is it still possible to make posts to communities defederated from my home account (in this case mander)?
Yes there is. Scroll to the bottom of mander.xyz and you'll see a link for "instances." This will show you both who we're federated with and if any instances have been blocked. I don't think any are blocked at the moment. If mander were to defederate from an instance you would not be able to make posts there with your mander account. You'd have to make an account with that instance or a different instance that does federate with them. So I can post to beehaw from this account, but not if I had an account on the lemmy.world instance since beehaw defederated them. I personally hope that an export or sync subscriptions feature will eventually be made to make it easy to get new accounts up to speed in case there's a defederation event.
Edit: oh and one stipulation, if a instance defederated us, but we didn't defederate them, you could still make posts to it (and it wouldn't show up in our block list), but this wouldn't get sent to the "real" thread and would only be visible to other people on mander. We also would no longer get new posts or comments on those. So like right after beehaw defederated from lemmy.world there was for a brief time some ghost comments that only people from lemmy.world could see.
Also if we did defederate from an instance, and a person from that instance posted to a different instance that we did federate with, you still wouldn't be able to see their comments from your mander account. Basically defederation is hitting block for everyone on this instance to everyone and every post on that instance. If I'm wrong in any of this please correct me, I'm new on this too. But basically defederation is messy so probably best reserved for extraordinary circumstances.