I think most people would agree with the sentiment, but it's probably a side effect of people being a bit lost.
If you can't find the community or discussion where you could contribute more niche information, having the general reddit exodus topic at least lets you participate.
And I think that is the common thread of optimism. Even with the confusion and the jank, it still feels good to be somewhere welcoming and new.
I rather like how total karma isn't tracked. I wonder how other people feel though?
scrap the current https://join-lemmy.org/ we need a screenshot of this comment up there and nothing else NOW
How federalization works can be a bit confusing. For me the biggest hurdle to get over was how the different instances - lemmy.ml and lemmy.world - are separate websites. They can connect and interact with each other because they're federalized, but your account is only on lemmy.world.
Now for some magic!
Relative links for communities (subreddits) can work across instances:
As long as your instance knows the community exists the links should work.
I think creating too many accounts as you try to find a home and figure out what instances are is a normal thing. I certainly did it as well 😂
You can think of each instance as a separate reddit website. The magic of the fediverse is all these separate full on websites are still the same thing and can interact with each other!
You can! With a few caveats.
[asklemmy](/c/asklemmy@asklemmy.ml) becomes asklemmy
However it won't work if your instance doesn't know the community exists. In those cases it needs to be searched for in the usual cumbersome way, but after that the relative links should work.
It felt a bit off at first to not have the top comments all be the ones with the most votes, but I like how it works on lemmy after spending time here.
You can join an old thread and not feel like it's pointless to add to the discussion!
On the main page you can toggle the Subscribed | Local | All thing to get different feeds. You can set the default in your settings.
The hard part is that while you can have relative links to communities (/c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml) it doesn't work for individual posts, threads, or comments.
I assume it's a difficult problem because those would have different ids in different instances?
I think many people were looking for a reason to leave but kind of felt stuck seeing all the alternatives being either dead or abrasive.
Lemmy seems to have captured the soul of what a significant portion of people have already been looking for.
The ol' switcheroo on lemmy would be a great way to teach people how to do inter-instance links! I don't think it's possible right now to link specific threads or comments, but it would definitely be a fun way to show how federation works.
I forgot it even existed. Is it a game yet or still just a series of presentations and announcements?