Relaxed section for discussion and debate that doesn't fit anywhere else. Whether it's advice, how your week is going, a link that's at the back of your mind, or something like that, it can likely go here.
Subcommunities on Beehaw:
This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.
I think my advice is the same as it was for new Mastodon transplants a few months ago: follow a lot, prune a lot.
Communities will come and go. Don't get discouraged your first week trying to figure everything out. I'd follow a bunch of communities and just prune them out later if your home timeline is getting out of hand.
I'm still trying to figure out the whole Fediverse thing. I kind of get the impression that at this point, the expectation is that one ~~ring will rule them all~~ community will end up becoming the most popular if there are many communities that cover the same topic. I hope that works. Because until it does, there will be a bunch of tiny little communities with small groups of members who are isolated from each other.
My hope is they add multi communities of some sort. Where you can
A. Group like communities together and browse them by topic, similar to multireddits
And/or
B. Certain communities can join forces and automatically cross-post with each other to reduce duplication and fragmentation while still splitting load
How technically feasible the latter is, I don’t know. But it would be cool. I’m still prettt new to this type of setup.
Unfortunately I think it'd be complicated as far as moderation goes, because posts would have to be moderated across instances by different mods.
A lot of people have suggested using https://browse.feddit.de to find popular communities
feddit's browser for finding a specific sub. Going to the instances community directories is also good for just scoping out.
I am hoping ease of community discovery and subscription is a top added feature for lemmy.
I spun up an instance of Calckey to see how well it plays and pulls in content from Beehaw. It feels kind of hit or miss. I wish there was a tool that federated really nicely with multiple platforms.
I’d love something that would allow easy browsing of lemmy content and a nice interface for just sharing photos and text. Calckey seems almost there but lemmy content just seems to randomly trickle in the main feed and it’s not very organized. The project is a small team so it’s understandable.
Calckey looks like it has a really mature ui, which is something that other fediverse stuff seems to struggle with. How inter-operable is it with stuff like mastodon? I understand that's the whole point of the fediverse but I'm curious how well calckey works as like a one-stop shop, as it were. Or if not, what's it primarily useful for?
It’s great for something like mastodon posts since it’s a similar post style. But for deep threaded content like Lemmy, it could use some work.
It’s useful for posting multimedia posts and text posts. You can also create lemmy posts and respond them when they pop up in the feed. But I haven’t been able to “search” for the URL of a specific lemmy thread sadly, just a community.
The features it has basically let you create like a mini site and you can customize the UI as needed for your instance.
It would be nice to automatically generate a sidebar of other instances that cover the same topic in the magazine/subreddit of your home instance that you’re currently browsing, because right now if I want to follow “gaming” as a general topic outside the kbin.social magazine, I have to search for it manually on those other instances or find someone from my home instance who posted a comment with the address to that topic in the external instance.
I’m sure each site has its own priorities right now, but a more streamlined search method for topics/interests would be awesome.
Also, dog
dog :)