Browsing remote magazines works fine, but directly visiting the post doesn't somehow.
However, seems like content is not showing up here very well due to the servers being temporarily maxed out, according to Jerry's post anyway
I guess that's the case.
Also, notifications only worked for me a few days ago. I had to check the post myself to see the comments. I hope it sorted itself out once there's less influx of redditors.
Easier way to comment on a post from another instance?
What I've been doing is copying the post's link to Fedia's search bar. Sometimes it works, sometimes it shows up empty. This one deosn't seem to work. The comments are also usually empty.
Tbh it's quite tedious as currently I'm browsing to every instance I want to read, and then when I want to comment, I have to copy the post link and return to Fedia, paste into search bar, and then comment. It's a mild inconvenience at least on PC, but on the phone it's just a pain to do. Juggling between multiple tabs is quite a demanding task on my potato phone. Not to mention Lemmy's website is so heavy for some reason, even worse than new Reddit. AND it keeps refreshing the home page automatically so sometimes I clicked on the wrong post.
That's news to me. I thought serverto-server interactions would be heavier since other instances will keep fetching contents from your instance once they start federating. I guess it's better to join less populated instances instead of crowding on a single instance.
That's a really good analogy. Still, there needs to be an easier way to search remote communities. Copy pasting community links in search bar is really clunky.
So that's why there were no comments when I searched a post from a remote instance. You need to search the comments individually. It's kinda weird design imo.
Me too. You can find nearly everything in reddit however obscure it is. Reddit is also a great place for finding answers ever since most websites became seo-optimized ai-generated content, making googling pretty much useless unless you add reddit to the query.
I'm quite worried of how well this federation system will work in the long run, especially when more people coming from Rexxit. As people make more post/comments, every federated instance will have to cache more redundant contents from each other, which also will use more storage thus increasing the fee of every instance hoster. There's also another problem of visibility in search engines. Because Lemmy/Kbin can be hosted by anyone, it makes searching on a specific domain impossible, unlike how I can just add "reddit" in the search query. Also since there are multiple Lemmy/Kbin instances, there's a chance there'll be similar communities spread over, fragmenting the communities even further. Until they can find a way to fix those problem, I don't think federation is suited for large scale communities.
As for fragmentation problem, maybe adding a global search for communities like this will help reducing fragmentation. Users can still make their own community in their instance, while other people who don't need to can easily find the community they want.