First step is to make sharing posts easier by integrating something like https://threadiverse.link/.

If I wanted to share your post with my friends, I'd send them the following link: https://piefed.ca/c/asklemmy/p/461864/what-should-we-be-doing-individually-to-increase-lemmy-s-userbase.

If my friends were also on Piedfed.ca, then all's fine. But if they're on a different instance and want to comment and/or vote on your post, then they're fucked. They would have to go on their home instance, look for !asklemmy@lemmy.world, and then search for your post.

I say friend, but this applies to literally everyone here except those who are already on Piefed.ca.

Ah, okay now this makes more sense. I misread and thought he was the owner of CD Projekt, and he got his own company to sell GOG to himself. Thanks for the clarification!

Can someone who's more well versed in business explain what this means? From my understanding, nothing really changes as the owners of both GOG and CD Projekt is the same dude. But I'm sure there must be a reason why this was done.

As long as you were happy doing nothing during the winter break, then that's all that matters. :)

I used to be on Lemmy, but I prefer PieFed's UI better. You can also set scheduled threads, which is pretty nice if you post things frequently. But whichever you choose, Lemmy and Piefed can interact with one another. And that's the beauty of the Fediverse.

Because there's still a handful of basic stuff that still hasn't gotten sorted out yet for some reason.

Like if I wanted to share your post with my friends, I'll send them this link: https://piefed.ca/c/nostupidquestions/p/377144/why-isint-lemmy-more-popular. If they're using a mobile app, then it might be fine. But if they're on desktop and want to comment or vote here but aren't already on my instance, they need to go back to their home instance, search up this community, and then search for this post. Why isn't there some sort of native way where I can just click on a button and have it open up in my home instance? Or even better: integrate something like threadiverse.link into Lemmy/PieFed so it immediately redirects me to my home instance's version on this post.

And before someone suggests using a different front-end or using a browser script, I appreciate you trying to help but my issue is why this isn't even natively part of Lemmy. And I'm not even sure if it's in the pipelines for V1.0.

Another issue is that there are still posts that don't federate properly. And it's not because an instance was defederated. What posts I see on this account might never be visible from a separate account. What is even more frustrating is that sometimes, I can't even force my instance to fetch the post. I'll give it the direct link and it still can't find the post on my instance.

As long as these basic issues remain unresolved, Lemmy will not become popular. A site can't be popular if I can't even share a post to my friends properly. Or if I can't even see the post, then I wouldn't be able to share it with anyone!

Edit: added clarification

This can happen on the Fediverse as well, though. It might not happen at the same scale as on Reddit over here due to the public modlog, but mods can still ban people for no legitimate reason.

There are lots of other reasons why Reddit sucks. But mods power tripping isn't unique to them. We have our own fair share of power tripping mods and community hoarders that migrated here from Reddit.

There's a video of Kowloon Walled City from a university student (Suenn Ho) if anyone wants to see how it looks like from the inside. It's incredible how people even managed to live there.

And by OFF, we mean actually off. The last thing I want is the game to push out a minor update 5 years after its last update, and all of the mods I have are now broken.

Those scary words make the investors sad. :(

I'm able to login via my desktop. I tried using Interstellar and it doesn't work. Could it be because my account is too new? I joined 3 hours ago.