Reddit isn’t totally free of this problem (feature) either–You can have multiple subreddits dedicated to the same topic.
True, but there you don’t have the problem that you can access subreddit “gamingB” but not “gamingA” because you happen to be logged in on an instance that defederated “gamingA”.
You can just access all of the different subreddits with one account and freely choose on which on you’d like to post and always able to see every post ever made in every sub.
With Lemmy as it is now, I don’t even know if the posts I see in a community on InstanceA really are all posts because there might be posts made by people on InstanceB that is blocked by InstanceC that I’m accessing the community of InstanceA with.
That’s my biggest concern right now.
I noticed this today when I had a comment chain on lemmy.world that I accesed with my lemm.ee instance. That chain was >10 posts long with several different users from different instances.
When I looked into that community with my feddit.de account, I could only see the first two comments of that chain, not even my own lemm.ee comments were visible despite not being blocked by feddit.de.
It was because the third post of that chain was made by a user on an instance that is blocked by feddit.de and that lead to all following posts also missing.
So now I’m feeling like I’m possibly missing big parts of all those comment sections just because I happen to be on an instance that blocked someone that might participate in them.
Hell, I don’t even know if you can see this post because it could be that your instance defederated from my instance.
I don’t use many extensions, but apart from the usual UBlock Origin I’ll say something exotic: UltraWideo
Because sites like disney+ still don’t know that 21:9 monitors exist so you have to force it to scale their 21:9 films to your monitor instead of giving you black bars on all sides