Sometimes I can be the only poster for a few weeks. Makes me requestion the relevance of posting at all. I started posting to !pics@lemmy.world recently just because at least my posts are widely seen, and other people post there as well.

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[–] Blaze@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Sometimes I question the fact that some communities might be too niche, but even on something as generic as !movies@lemm.ee there aren't that many people wanting to talk about movies

[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

I feel like Lemmites generally have a handful of interests: US politics, Linux, and Star Trek. I guess the war in Gaza gets a lot of comments too. But outside of that range, it gets pretty quiet.

Going back to Reddit every now and then, it's nice to see conversations on other topics.

[–] misk@sopuli.xyz 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Isn't this because there's already moviesandtv which seems to be better suited to the current community size?

[–] Blaze@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

moviesandtv exist, but don't really allow people to discuss movies and shows, it's mostly about news.

I suggested at the time to just have a pinned post like "what have you been watching", but got banned by the mod for "backseat moderation" (see below: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/8381687)

The other issue is that as Lemmy posts don't have unique URLs that can be used by every instance, you can't just have a megathread with links to discussion threads, as that would work only for one instance

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

The other issue is that as Lemmy posts don't have unique URLs that can be used by every instance, you can't just have a megathread with links to discussion threads, as that would work only for one instance

I'm curious as to how Lemmy apps solve this issue (which they seem to have done), and why the web interface doesn't have similar functionality. In Eternity and Thunder, I can tap on a link to a post on another instance, and it opens the corresponding post on my home instance.

Is there some lookup table under the hood to match post IDs between instances? Whatever system apps are using, why would this not work more broadly?

[–] Blaze@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Interesting, I never noticed, guess I'll have to reinstall Thunder.

On browser, there is lemmyverse.link, but

if the site goes down, all your links are now dead
having to select the instance people want to see the link would probably be annoying to most users

I am not sure how apps can do it better than the web UI, but I had a quick look on the Github and that issue is still open: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2987

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For now, Lemmy Universal Link Switcher is a great browser script which mostly simulates the functionality of instance agnostic post and comment links. It would be great if the equivalent functionality could be integrated natively into Lemmy though.

[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Indeed!