Die4Ever

One of the nicest things about these communities is how easy it is to have good conversations with internet strangers.

Maybe at that point people would use the Local feed more when they want to interact with their neighbors?

"or else"

https://youtu.be/dlyMZNURdmc

Right, but that's the issue. It can give them an extremist instance

Yeah but that's just join-lemmy, someone could make their own website that doesn't have this issue, even without overloading the user with info. It should only show instances that are middle of the road general instances.

I just want to point out that Kbin is no longer being worked on and Mbin forked from it and the work is continuing there under that name. The major instances switched over a while ago.

could you give me an example of which community doesn't work?

you should be able to paste the [!communityname@instancename.com](/c/communityname@instancename.com) into the search, it may take a few seconds even after it says "no results found", because remote searches can take a while

you can also copy-paste the full URL to the community into the search, like https://programming.dev/c/programmer_humor

sorry I totally misread that as defederated lol

When you make an installer USB stick, it also doubles as a live preview (for most? all? distros).

So you just boot into it and you can play with it before running the installation.

These things don't affect the average user (lurker) much at all. Ideally you just start with whatever instance and only move if you don't like it. A new user can't really know if an instance is bad or not before trying it.

(As long as the recommendation page doesn't give them an extremist instance)

I think all of that would be easy to add to Lemmy, they already have the sorting method for posts (New Comments), the option to sort comments as "Chat", and the option to disable voting. Maybe file a few feature requests on the Lemmy GitHub. It would be interesting to see an instance like this.

Have you tried blocking some communities?

The one I suggest the most lately is https://discuss.online/

If that's true then the problem will solve itself when Mbin or PieFed overtakes Lemmy. The content will be there anyways, we just need to see who brings the best UX/UI (or whatever frontend/app)