[Gigachad]

The annoying thing is that links don’t work properly. If someone links to a post, you won’t be logged in when you click it.

This is also a problem with mastodon. As well as the fact that instances constantly shut down or have insane admins.

[NoboruWataya]

What I would love to see is a browser extension that recognises when you are browsing a Lemmy instance and allows you to seamlessly interact with it from your "home" instance.

[cynber]

This is actually something I'm working on!

It's not perfectly seamless, because I wanted to minimize the risk that it will redirect some non-lemmy site with matching URL structure/elements. However, I've tried to make it as seamless as possible.

https://lemmy.ca/c/instance_assistant

[Gigachad]

Honestly what I'd like to see is a centralised reddit replacement that covers the majority of features and UX that old reddit had. I tried voat when it first came out and it seemed to work pretty well. Only issue is it was quickly overwhelmed by racists.

Lemmy is probably taking on too large of a problem. No one has got federated systems to work as nicely as centralised ones yet.

[NoboruWataya]

> No one has got federated systems to work as nicely as centralised ones yet.

They never will. Federated systems have certain advantages over centralised ones. One of the principal advantages is that it allows hosting costs to be shared more widely, which means you don't need a single entity with hundreds of thousands of dollars to maintain the thing. Another is that toxic communities can be more easily isolated from the rest (so that the communities you like don't become quickly overwhelmed by racists).

One of the disadvantages is that there is more friction than a single, centralised system. It is, by definition, not as seamless. The seams are the feature. It's just the trade-off you make.

[rcMgD2BwE72F]

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fediact/ ?