Some ability to move identity. I don't love the way you move accounts on Mastodon, but I appreciate that its possible.
this post was submitted on 28 Jan 2024
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Having your identity being tied to an instance is not great UX imo. Bans happen, not always for great reasons. Instances die or close up shop. Having to re-do all your subscriptions, losing your comment history, etc just because your smaller instance closes is pretty annoying and pushes people to more stable, centralized, large instances.
This is why I prefer nostr over mastodon, it's basically the same in every key way except that your identity is not tied to your instance. I believe nostr devs are working on a reddit clone like lemmy or kbin, but it's not done yet. Their twitter/mastodon clone is great though.
Having to re-do all your subscriptions,
You can mitigate that by exporting your settings and keeping them as a backup. That's one of the nice features that 19.X brought
That's good to know. Sounds like it doesn't totally solve the portability issue but definitely a step in the right direction.
Is there a reason for nostr do not adopt AP protocol?
It's just a different protocol that makes different trade-offs, so it can't use AP protocol. Nostr is an underlying protocol in the same way that AP is, so you can build twitter clones, reddit clones, video streaming services, etc on top of it just like you can with AP.
Nostr's key difference IMO is where your identity lives, and nostr decided not to have it tied to a particular instance. AP decided to have it tied to an instance, that is a pretty fundamental part of the AP protocol and is the same way e-mail works.
AP did not tie it to an instance. It left it up to clients and platforms. Mastodon tied identity to instances
You can do it from version 19.X, no? I just did it the other day.
Nice to know 19 did something other than break federation the whole time I was off for the holidays.
Definitely not the best experience ever
Some of the Lemmy mobile clients allow anonymously browsing Instances.
Sync used too. Hopefully it will again.
Edit:oh wth it works now
Some of the alternative web-UIs let you do that. Photon for sure and I think Alexandrite as well.
Which ones?
Voyager!
I recently switched from jerboa to Voyager, how do you do it?
Check out the section "Guest Accounts" in the release notes here: https://github.com/aeharding/voyager/releases/tag/1.37.0
On iOS, I know Arctic and Thunder do. I’m sure others do as well, just not sure off the top of my head.
Connect for Android does
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That would be good - I often want to see what an unfamiliar instance is about by checking out their homepage sidebar and local communities and currently it's several clicks and involves going directly to the site, effectively logging me out. At least the new versions have the new feature that sends you back to your home instance to subscribe.
The only plus is that sometimes the remote instance has interesting styles or other customisations that I wouldn't see unless i visited properly.
I host my own instance and in the database I can see all the instances my instance knows. Why is this not in the ui? That way I could just click on an instance (as admin) and open up their homepage.
Also, why arent the community headers auto federated? If I federate with lemmy world, I want to be able to see any community on there and by subscribing to one community it copies the content (current situation).
Have you tried looking here?
WOW! No, I havent. Is that linked somewhere or just available through direct address?
The ability to "subscribe" to a thread so you could be told when anyone adds to the thread. I don't understand how people follow a thread without this. You would have to constantly be going back to it (over and over) to seeing if anything was added.
I use "New comments" for this
That sorts on the comments of all posts, not just the ones I am interested in.
Indeed, but there is no better option right now
Just remembered there is also this add-on to help you subscribe to communities in your own instance while browsing another one: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/lemmy-instance-assistant/
The web alternative interfaces Photon and Alexandrite allow it: https://lemmyapps.netlify.app/
Your instance might have those accessible directly (for instance LW has https://p.lemmy.world/)
Maybe it was discussed during the AMA ?
!announcements@lemmy.ml
Lemmy Developer AMA and Dev Update, 2024-01-26, 1500 CEDT here
P.S. : Yes, it was ask ... :
... Finding communities across instances ...
by : @OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
P.S.2 : ... but no one answered that question and it was not raised again in all those 350 something comments.
At least now we have a modal that you feel with your instance domain.