If you're on a different lemmy instance, how do you translate these links to local ones?
This is really the only problem I've been struggling with on lemmy.
Otherwise, the experience has been okay. Teething pains, sure, but most of those are getting resolved in real time.
And, if the "external reddit app" people all start developing their app for lemmy instead, holy cow, that's going to put a lot of programmer hours into it.
Reddit may go down a lot faster than I expected. I really expected spez to win this one simply by holding his breath and running to the IPO. However, things are kinda collapsing faster than I expected.
Edit: Nope: search didn't work for the lemmy.world one. Presumably that only works if someone on your instance has already pulled in the group to your instance.
These kinds of UX problems have been plaguing federated platforms for a while now. Feels like the alternatives have bitten off more than they can chew. It would have been nice if someone had built something like old reddit or voat but banning the racists. None of these platforms feel like actual alternatives to reddit.
r/steam: https://lemmy.world/post/239075
r/piracy: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/35555
r/antiwork: https://infosec.exchange/@vertana/110557520854046992
r/pics: https://lemmy.world/post/206930