I know that the purpose of Lemmy is to be split into instances and stuff to stay independent or whatever, but - imo - if it really wants to become a true alternative for Reddit it needs one place for users to land. Something like “LEMMY.COM” where you can see all instances + all communities, where you can log into your instance, maybe even log into more than one instance at once (let’s be honest, who doesn’t have a separate porn account these days lul)
The thing is, most of us used Reddit until now instead of Lemmy because Reddit did the overall browsing experience a lot better. Yeah it needed the help of third party apps for that, true, but I could just open reddit, look at r/all or my subscribed subreddits and be done with it. Being on Lemmy feels like “oh yeah, this is a great idea, but wow it is very inconvenient to look through this place”
(Btw, I LOVE the lemmy logo!)
I am maybe describing it badly, but I mean something instance independent. A hub of sort. Something that is “the frontpage of Lemmy” so to speak.
I dont wan’t to change any of the core functions of Lemmy, like what I think would still include all the instances and stuff, but it could all be accessed from that main hub as well.
Maybe you could compare it to an app that lets you switch between several accounts for the same service. Or even connect several accounts for the same service.
What should happen is a peer to peer “Popular” tab.
Like, each server pings what’s popular on their own instances to a large peer to peer list. That gets updated every so often, and obviously instances could opt out.
But that is exactly what I don’t think should be the case - it should be a hub that has ALL content from ALL the instances. The users itself should decide what to see and what not. Content filtered by an instance should only happen when you are browsing on that instance itself.
Someone mentioned I probably mean a client and I might really mean that. Like I said, a big hub for all the lemmy content, for all your lemmy accounts, where you can edit the content you want to see (like enable/disable PORN NSFW, NSFW in general, specific countries or whatever)