Comment on Fedilab - help me understand it - please
PeleSpirit@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I wasn’t familiar with Fedilab but I’m pretty sure that it’s just a way to see and interact with instances you’ve already joined. I think where you’re getting confused is, you don’t join “The Fediverse” with one instance, they may not communicate well yet. I’m not sure if there are issues with choosing an instance on Lemmy (with the reddit style that might make it confusing) with Pixelfed (where it’s all pictures) and Mastodon (where it’s microblogging). Lemm.ee might be defederated or not able to communicate with all the places you want to go. I would try different types of instances and maybe another instance on lemmy to see if that works. Growing pains.
Rambler@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Indeed, growing pains - and we’re all getting to make sense of it all. I can only speak for myself, but at times I find this change confusing. Thanks.
PeleSpirit@lemmy.world 1 year ago
On that note, another really confusing thing about the fediverse (maybe just lemmy) is that if you want something from another instance, you have to search for it on your instance. This is because they may not have connected or stored that particular info yet, so it has to do a thorough search to connect to it and then you can subscribe. I know they’re working on ways to make this simpler and communicate better, but it’s just not there yet. It’s kind of fun to me to see how everything interacts but it can be weird at first. We’re helping it get better by asking for what we want, the apps have been getting better and better. I find Voyager and Liftoff great apps (both free and open source) to start off with but Liftoff shuts down quite a bit. Each app has things that I want from the other apps, lol. Keep trying different stuff.