Surely someone has already written a browser extension to automatically redirect reddit links to archive.[org|is]
JWBananas
joined 2 years ago
Forget the Space PCP. Where did they get the training?
I suppose on that moon where it rained blood?
The two biggest surprises I've had so far:
- Lack of federated login / single sign on. It seems bizarre in a land of federated instances to not have the identity provider decoupled (or even truly decentralized). Instance goes away? Poof, there goes your identity. "Backed up" your data and want to import it into another instance? That functionality doesn't exist today. And even if it were added, how do you validate?
I hate to even suggest it just because of how much of a buzzword it has become. But blockchain feels like a possible answer to the identity problem. It would couple one's identity to the network as opposed to the instance.
That's not to say that instance-level identities shouldn't be allowed as well; but it would be nice to have the option. Right now one basically needs to sign up for separate accounts on as many instances as possible to prevent bad actors from posing as them. A universal ID would solve that.
- Lack of historical data. Are you the first subscriber to !bobswidgets@feder.icio.us through lemmy.world? Doesn't matter if the original community had fiftyleven posts. You only get to see any created after you subscribe?
What we need are more backend and full stack developers to shore up the core functionality. A polished mobile app is not going to cancel out the other shortcomings.
There are critical bugs and missing functions/features that need to be addressed first. Otherwise the masses are going to take one look and never return.
It makes sense for topical instances. For example, startrek.website is where /r/startrek and /r/daystrominstitute and /r/risa landed. I saw a post earlier about some all-things-gardening instance as well.
And just in general, I certainly wouldn't want to drink from the firehose. The whole reason I created an account on reddit over a decade ago was to limit what I saw on the front page. Aside from occasional usage for discoverability, I cannot imagine wanting to drink from every firehose, everywhere, all at once.
Most of them. That was the whole reason I created an account in the first place: the home page was too many pictures and not enough text.
You might like kbin better. It's like a hybrid of Lemmy and Mastodon.