Or why Lemmy is too much like hard work
The sole admin of the first instance I joined (which isn’t small) has gone missing. So it’s been defederated by some other instances. Then re-federated by some of them.
So about six weeks ago I made an account with instance two, which seems to be well run BUT updates to the latest version so it doesn’t work with any of the third party apps I use.
Which wouldn’t be an issue except the Lemmy web UI works horribly on mobile. There’s a PWA but that hasn’t been updated and won’t now authenticate.
So I joined a third instance but that seems to have completely disappeared without warning.
I’d join Lemmy.world but it has regular resource issues and downtime. Plus moderation issues.
App 1 hasn’t seen any development for over three months and now barely functions.
App 2 which is apparently the second most popular app now only receives emergency fixes when it won’t work at all
Apps 3 and 4 throw authentication errors on any instance running above 0.18.4 because the developers are re-thinking.
As a user it’s almost enough to send me to Reddit.
You mean checking 6 different Android communities across 6 different instances just to keep updated on what’s going on isn’t fun?
You mean seeing the same post on the front page of everything, posted across 30 communities, every damn day isn’t fun?
Either Lemmy needs to natively support it, or a third party app, but we need the ability to create multi-communities (like multi subreddits), so I can check all 6 Android communities in 1 tap.
We also need the ability to consolidate all of the same links/titles into 1 collapsed post, so we don’t have to scroll through the same news stories a million times.
I’m 100% with you on that. I have filtered out so many communities because I get frustrated seeing the same shit posted to every iteration of a stupid news community. It’s exhausting to try and see things once.