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

@lodion@aussie.zone

  • Treevan 🇦🇺@aussie.zoneEnglish
    3·
    7 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.zone
      English
      3·
      7 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.