Meta threads will open federation to the fediverse soon, and while this is mainly to mastodon it will still affect lemmy. They are acting like they won’t be evil, but let’s be real this is Facebook when have they ever done that.

This article which has been trending lately explains some of the issues. https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

This comment here is a simple analogy if you can’t be bothered reading the article. https://lemmy.ca/comment/5702922

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  • maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zoneEnglish
    8·
    11 months ago

    This seems like a very important discussion but let me tell you how I came across it. It’s possible many others on Aussie Zone fall into a similar boat as mine. If not please ignore.

    I only use Voyager to interact with Lemmy regularly. Occasionally I check out Aussie Zone via a browser but that’s very rare.

    I think the ‘Default feed’ for Voyager is ‘Home’ which are the coms I’ve subbed to. I didn’t even know what ‘Local’ was until I looked it up just now (while trying to find out if Voyager can list all the coms of an instance like the coms page in a desktop browser, which I don’t think it does).

    So I was surprised not to see this discussion earlier after seeing it pop up more broadly across the lemmyverse. Turns out that’s because I never selected the Local feed to see what everyone is talking about and because I wasn’t subbed to Meta (as in the Aussie Zone com, not the company) until now.

    If my ignorance is unusual for Aussie Zone folk then please ignore this comment. If it’s possible that lots of other active or semi-active local users are not seeing this discussion is there any way to highlight it across the instance?

    • Treevan 🇦🇺@aussie.zoneEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      I know you’ve worked it out now but here is my own personal take.

      I’m not subscribed to any aussie.zone communities. I just use ‘Local’ and ‘New’ (‘New Comments’ also helps) to browse them all in one go after first looking at ‘Home’ in Voyager.

      It’s why instance shopping by interest is important for some, using ‘Local’ becomes your community. Mastodon is similar, you join an instance that is related to you and ‘Local’ becomes another browsing tool. I am on aus.social so every now and again I use ‘Local’ to find posts from Aussies that weren’t hashtagged properly (knowing full well there are other australian instances that I’m missing).

      If you were on lemmy.world, ‘Local’ would be waste. Too many posts.

      • maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zoneEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        Hey that New Comments tip is great. I think I might test out your method of not subbing local coms and using Local to check what’s happening and also subbing to fedded coms so they come up in Home. Cheers.