No Stupid Questions

For real? I didn't know this is how it worked. I don't even know how to find those other instances. Do they just come up automagically or do you have to specifically search under those other instances?

This is bad.

I don't understand why some people have an issue with this but maybe is due to the way I have browsed Reddit for years, do with Mastodon now and plan to keep doing with Lemmy though I still haven't finished setting it up. I like having different "home pages", much like in Mastodon I can browse my following feed, the instance feed and the federated feed depending on the kind of content I want to look at that moment. Or all of them in succession if I want to check it all. When I was in Twitter I had to use lists to resemble something like this.

Reddit was even better for this if you took the time to set it up: if you suscribed to every single thing that caught your attention no matter your level of interest in it your suscribed feed ended up being clogged by the most popular subreddits among your suscribed communities, so you wound up missing out on some interesting posts in your more niche, slow communities. My solution was to only suscribe to the smallest communities where I didn't want to miss a single one of the posts (for example staples like GameDeals or some other minor communities I was temporarily fixated into, like say a specific videogame or themed subreddit -I unsuscribed from those when I got tired of them). Then, slowly and naturally while I browse keep heavily heavily curating the general feed by using the filter/block function, getting rid of anything that didn't interest me or wasn't good for me (in whatever way you want to interpret it, for example filtering ragebait subs) or often innocuous big subs I was tired of seeing or whose whole shtick had grown old. The result was a smaller suscribed feed I could quickly check daily with the reassurance that I wouldn't miss out on anything from those communities and a general feed that was always interesting to me but with the potential to show any kind of new community for me to decide to keep or filter away.

Subscribe to all of them and enjoy.

I mean you can, but there are instances I don't want to be federated with because of some of the content they host (which is moot for this discussion and I'm not thinking enough into whether they're any of these four). In those cases, I wouldn't want to subscribe to those specific communities. Kind of a guilt by association thing. Shitty, but it's how the system works.

"That's the way of the world" is usually said by Ayn Rand types who don't care about anyone else or know how to make things better.

Also, they paint the questioner as some nutter obsessed with finding every single byte about a topic.

And, no one is "stuck" on anything, we notice a defect and want to find a solution.

So think about this. Suppose you're making a community for, say, Ukrainians who have taken refuge in the USA.

What kind of person shrugs off their need to find each other and says "Suck it up buttercup". Or makes fun of them for asking.

Yes, there are inconvenient and irritating ways of handling the problem. Shrugging it off just tells me what kind of person you are, but it doesn't improve anything.

Now, what we could do - crazy, I know, hear me out - is think of a way to conglomerate all the content from diverse instances with different policies into one community where anyone can hear everyone else.

Two kinds of people in this world. The ones who start asking mocking questions, and those who put their heads together.

Why would you have to do that? I doubt you read every post on the Reddit subreddit, so you don't have to try to read every one here.

Now you have to find every single community in every single instance if you hope to talk about your topic?

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