In my experience I find niche community are very well “centralized”, like there is only one gnome community.

However larger community are speard between servers like tech etc. That really is not a problem for me, as any of these larger community can give me the news I need. Also sub to all 3 of them is not a big deal either.

Like everyone on reddit sub to at least 3 art communities, 5 dank meme communities, and 10 music communities.

How was the food, I was told that was not dutches’ strong strong suit.

Sounds like a fun idea, basically a better “all” page.

That being said, if you are on a well-fedorated instance, all page would likely be pretty similar to that. But I think such a community can potentially help smaller instances.

I think this is what you are looking for: https://the-federation.info/platform/73

I don’t know if it is “all the instance”, but it is a good amount.

And you can see the communities by typing <instance URL>/communities, like https://beehaw.org/communities

I imagine more casual discussion is on the Lemmy community: https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy and jaboa community: https://lemmy.ml/c/Jerboa

For more serious discussion I imagine respective GitHub will be great:

• backend: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy
• UI: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui
• Jerboa: https://github.com/dessalines/jerboa

I see a subscribe button in the side bar:

As you can see I entered a community on lemmy.ml from beehaw.org.

All I did is search “gaming”, click on the community, and I got the join option like normal. Can you let me know what does it look like on your side?

I think you just search the community name, if it is on your instance it will show up as community name otherwise it will show up as <community name>@<instance name> like gaming@lemmy.ml.

But in your instance or not, it will not make a difference for your experience, all you need to do is click subscribe, and it will show up in your feed.

I currently use fedora. I am absolutely fine with Ubuntu, but the setup process is a bit too much for me, as I prefer flatpak and vanilla gnome, so it takes a bit of work for Ubuntu to get there. Also I feel like ubuntu use a different gui for different purpose, it is a bit annoying (for example, there are three app, one update apt, one flatpak, one drivers.) It is not a big deal, but a bit annoying.

Mostly all I need is just a stable os that I can work in, and I don’t really want to mess with my os. So I don’t choose more cutting-edge/interesting distros like suse, arch, or Nix.

There are also distros like pop and mint, but they don’t support gnome well, and I haven’t get into the habit of cosmos or cinnamon.

I use infinity, the same story.

Apollo is a bit different; in my experience, apple product users are most used to subscription payment and non-free (both as in free lunch and in freedom) products. Good or bad, many other users are not used to that. Personally I would happily pay 50$ to buy a app to support the developer, but not a monthly subscription.

Also I personally prefer to use “properly open-sourced app” (have a readable organized repo instead of a zip dump of everything in the corner of the website just to comply with GPL). And these apps are harder to monetize.

Lemmur has been archived for a while: https://github.com/LemmurOrg/lemmur reason being lack of interest and political difference.

I think communities works like groups, so you can sub to communities on other servers. Thus, theoretically a instance that revolve around a couple specialized communities can work, since people can follow the specific community on that server.

If everything is local that kind of defeat the purpose of federation.