See (and please help if you can with)

• A way to link posts across instances #3259
• [Bug]: local links #3261

It’s the first and only lemmy app working on my old 2015 android phone.

Great to have backwards compatible options. I also like it :)

They are, I get results. My worry is they are not aggregated/unified. Some lemmy instances don’t have ‘lemmy’ in their name, and I’m not sure if they would show up in a search “X + lemmy”.

That’s a very important point. Some of us probably still remember the learning curve when coming to lemmy. Everyone has heard how others complained about it, or would not join in the first place.

Creating ambiguous terms and multiple definitions for the same things is one unecessary way to make life harder for everyone.

More reasons:

• the documentation calls it community
• the unchangeable URL refers to it: /c/

Oh, good point. Yes, probably? We can not simply assume search engines know that all of these point to the same content:

• https://slrpnk.net/c/technology
• https://feddit.de/c/technology@slrpnk.net
• https://sopuli.xyz/c/technology@slrpnk.net
• https://beehaw.org/c/technology@slrpnk.net

Or even worse, due to defederation, they may not all point to the exact same content.

Without further investment either from lemmy or the search engine’s side, they are probably seen as distinct sources, not aggregated. Which makes each individually less relevant and less likely to show up .

Also note none of the adresses above contain ‘lemmy’. How would users search for content on lemmy in these cases? Can’t do “technology site:lemmy”, or?

But I can say, lemmy content is visible. Haven’t seen it on the first page of ecosia yet, but on page 2 or 3.

Two positive surprise features which are very useful in long and complex comment chains:

Comments to other comments get a colored bar on the left. Color depends on indent which makes it easy to find comments of same ident even over long vertical distances.

Super long comment chains can be continued on the same page.

Federation and defederation has much more complex implications than I thought: lemmy.world: How the beehaw defederation affects us

Missing lots of groups.

Region/language specific: German, Hamburg

Topics: Climate, Gamedesign, ChatGPT, DebateReligion, DebateMeatEaters, AskScience

Someone posted https://kbin.social/m/fediverse/t/4331/The-growing-list-of-subreddits-going-to-be-dark-but which seems to suggest at least some of these already exist. But when I try to find/subscribe, I get “No results”. I’m trying to find new communities here, is this the right way? https://lemmy.click/search/q/search/type/Communities/sort/TopAll/listing_type/All/community_id/0/creator_id/0/page/1

It also makes it more accessible if the language is consistent. I remember when I learned the reddit-specific terms like sub, subreddit, redditor, OP and so on. They seem obvious in hindsight, but some of them were not when I had no idea. Now imagine for each term, there would be multiple synonyms. The feeling of “I have no firm understanding of what they are talking about” would last longer, which isn’t exactly a pleasant experience for newcomers.