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Post on /r/RedditAlternatives detailing why Lemmy isn't an alternative. Feel free to chime in to give another perspective (old.reddit.com)
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[–] JayGray91@fedia.io 7 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I'll probably join in later to give my 2 cents as a new threadiverse user.

but I have to say I agree with the decentralized nature is a UX headache. simply because if someone isn't linking in the right format, I'll be kicked out of my instance and suddenly I can't comment anymore.

it's better in mobile apps. and there's probably browser extensions to help. but still.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Hasn't Mbin solved that with their last release?

Inline Previews of linked posts

We added rich rendering of activity pub entities. That may sound very technical, but the gist of it is: if you mention a user or a magazine we will now render a component for it, with the avatar, the name, the hover preview, etc.

We did the same for threads, microblogs and comments. So when you put the "original URL" (ActivityPub id) in your post we will now render an inline preview of that post.

https://gehirneimer.de/m/mbinReleases/t/486586/v1-8-0-Bookmarks-Notification-Settings-Signup-Requests-and-More

[–] JayGray91@fedia.io 3 points 2 days ago

thanks for bringing this to my attention. personally I haven't seen it yet.

[–] Die4Ever@programming.dev 4 points 2 days ago

I believe this is being improved in the v1.0 release of Lemmy coming soon:

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/5057

and they have other ideas in their issues log to further improve, like:

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/2318

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

if someone isn't linking in the right format, I'll be kicked out of my instance and suddenly I can't comment anymore

there's probably browser extensions to help

Indeed, there are. You want Violentmonkey + Lemmy Universal Link Switcher. Best way to avoid accidentally leaving your home instance.

Lemmy Universal Link Switcher, or LULs for short, scans all links on all websites, and if any link points to a Lemmy instance that is not your main/home instance, it rewrites the link so that it instead points to your main instance.