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Following @lemmy was a bad idea. It's literally every comment with subpar context. Which is fine, the mental models of twitter and reddit are different, after all, but it's (hdev.im)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by farcaller@hdev.im to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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Following @lemmy was a bad idea. It's literally every comment with subpar context. Which is fine, the mental models of twitter and reddit are different, after all, but it's not digestible from the stream as it's just an excessive amount of noise.

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[–] Buttermilk@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah, not sure how easy it would be to change, but if it just didn't boost user replies, it would actually be pretty solid on mastodon.

[–] Compgeek@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m still figuring out how it works, but seems Mastodon doesn’t sync the history too well, and only stays in sync if at least one person on the instance is following the community. Maybe the old ones are delayed sync, or someone that was subscribed then unsubbed before another took over? It’s getting the Snoo hug of death at the moment, so I’m expecting weird behaviour!

[–] Buttermilk@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah that makes sense. I'm mostly just poking around to see how it reacts, no real expectations of it working well. Really considering the walled gardens of each of the technologies this replaces, any amount of connection is really icing on the cake!

I haven't tried it myself, but I remember someone mentioning things like peertube videos being sharable on mastodon, then replying to the peertube post in mastodon could add a reply to the peertube page and vise versa. Obviously the reply structure of lemmy is quite different, but it is cool to imagine the ways interoperability could evolve with more attention.