Re:Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy ...
by vidarh on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @02:18PM
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The "difficulty" here can also be improved significantly in many different ways. E.g. a browser extension that allows auto-filling a form field with webfinger id is all that's needed to build a better flow for a lot of these federated services.
There are ways which would work without extensions too. E.g. a DHT mapping <some fingerprint> -> instance url. It doesn't even need to be perfect. Worst case you need to fill in the correct instance hostname.
Re:Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy ...
by mattmcknight on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @02:12PM
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But you can't follow anything from within HN.
But you can follow a subreddit in a feed reader- even HN. https://www.reddit.com/r/hackernews.rss
Re:Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy ...
by amadeuspagel on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @02:20PM
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Same is true for lemmy: https://lemmy.ml/feeds/c/lemmy.xml?sort=Active
There's nothing intrinsically slow about this model. There are some reasons a lemmy instance might be slow — such a prejudiced attitude to the best way to monetize such sites and hence not enough money for servers, but there's no intrinstic reason.
> difficult to use
The link complains about it being hard to follow remote communities. Of course, without federation, there's no way to follow remote communities at all. If you discover a subreddit you like you can't follow it from within HN.