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Comment by ajvs | Hacker News Reader

The main thing Lemmy is missing for adoption is a good desktop and/or mobile app.

Since instances can defederate with each other it's often not possible to follow all your favourite communities from one account. So a good app needs to decouple this and enable follow any community without having an account, and instead store following data in the client.

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Do you think there's a technical fix to this or do you think its an immutable aspect of Lemmy's design? Like, is there something facile that the client applications (Apps used to "browse" and interact with the Lemmy ecosystem/instances) can do or is it impossible with fundamentally altering Lemmy itself?

Yeah this is a design change that can only be fixed on the client application side because there will always be a reason created by an instance for why they don't want X content mirrored to their site.

Couldn't you just sign up on an instancewho's sole purpose is to remain federated with every other (major) instance and then "add" that account which the client app maintains along with one or all of your other accounts and wouldn't that super easily fix this issue even though it would be better for rhe app to handle all that without having an additional account to maintain?

Edit: also, did I just roughly describe a "mirror" without even knowing it from the spirit of what I said?

> did I just roughly describe a "mirror" without even knowing it from the spirit of what I said?

Yeap, you just did. :)

I absolutely adore when anyone accidentally does this. It should be a RedditSubbreddit and a LemmingCommunity

if following is all you care about, then you can just use the RSS feeds.

I don't think most Lemmy or Reddit user are satisfied at that level of engagement. RSS doesn't have comments and I don't believe any Redditor/Lemming seriously only goes for the "news" or being informed as the root goal although it would be a far healthier standard of engagement in my view.

Still, I don't see a replacement for community-oriented and community-curated discovery+parsing+critquing of content.

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