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This is better in an ideal world, but not practical right now. Let at lease one lemmy instance reach critical mass and become popular, then people will be more interested and learn about federation, and then people will start to branch out to other instances as they learn about what the differences are.

People need a smooth transition. That's the most important right now.

I think it just needs time to develop. Devs need to realize that most people aren't interested or don't have time to think or care about what federation is. Stop trying to teach people and just give users a one-click way to immediately start scrolling and browsing posts.

You can sign up on any and as many instances as you want, and still be able to view any content and community from any other instance. This is the point of federation.

Awesome! Is there a way to turn it into a single tap instead of tap and hold?

Lemmy rule 34 when?

Yeah that side bar needs to be minimizable.

I actually enjoy getting in on a platform at the early stages like this, because of the interesting conversations.

I'm going to use e-mail as an analogy.

"Lemmy" is analogous to "e-mail".

Each lemmy "server" or "instance" is the analogy of an email server. E.g. "lemmy.ml" or "beehaw.org" is equivalent to "gmail.com" or "hotmail.com" or "us.gov" or whatever email server.

You can use any email server to look at any email, the same way you can use any lemmy server to look at any lemmy post or community. You can use any email app to access any of your email accounts and view any email, the same way you can use any lemmy app to access any of your lemmy accounts to browse any lemmy post/commu ity.

If you currently use Gmail, and Google becomes evil, you can switch to Yahoo or Hotmail and still use email like usual. In the same way, if Lemmy.ml becomes evil you can switch to Beehaw.org and keep reading lemmy posts.

*** note that "lemmy" (the platform) and "lemmy.ml" (the instance) are not the same thing. It's kinda confusing, like if there's an "email" server called "email.com"

So are we gonna go with "sublemmy" from now on? 😀