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Lemmy works like that more or less. You can subscribe to communities on other instances and interact with them.
by jayknight 2y ago
Lemmy works like that more or less. You can subscribe to communities on other instances and interact with them.
- CaptainFever 2y agoTrue, I've forgotten that's the whole purpose of federation: to create a unified home feed. But then the Fediverse unfortunately runs up with the classic issue of network effects. For me personally, my Unified Home Feed of Reddit has more relevant content to me than my Unified Home Feed of Lemmy. And it seems it'll stay that way since Reddit's communities have thousands or millions more subscribers in general. So, sticking to Reddit is easier. This isn't helped by the admin wars on the Fediverse which introduce messy and silent breaks in the network, often requiring multiple accounts to view everything you're interested in. To the Fediverse's credit, their network is a lot wider so it still has some uses, that is, hosting communities banned on Reddit. But I'm not sure if some of the more "normal" subreddits have much incentive to move over.