Ok I get the message. I will refrain from cross posting as much as possible in the future. I do think this is not like Reddit and this tendency is a self-own for Lemmy where there is much more balkanization by design.

I agree. I hesitated to cross-post this, but someone suggested I do so on the original post.

But that shows a structural problem with the user incentives on Lemmy. The norm of discouraging cross-posting itself means that we have a system that actively discourages people from connecting with others. And if we’re actively incentivized to unsubscribe from multiple similar communities, that’s even worse! These are the opposite of the sort of incentives we should have in a healthy and viable social network.

Good point. I’m not as familiar with other Activity Pub interfaces so I haven’t thought about the implications for Mastodon, etc.

That’s an interesting proposal. I think I need to understand it better. Could you describe to me in what ways this would be better?

I can confirm. It feels like it’s down even less than Reddit when I used to be on there.

It feels like it’s up all the time when I use it. Must depend on the instance. Even Reddit was frequently down for maintenance and other issues.

For me, getting rid of the old reddit design as default was pretty egregious. Usability tanked if I wasn’t logged in.

I thought it wasn’t, but dumber things exist so I had the slightest uncertainty.

This might be a dumb question, but is this real?

In all seriousness though, it’s been really stable. Even this down time was short. This is a volunteer team and they’re running one of the best instances on the fediverse.