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  • Why are so many lemmy clients channel focused?

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  • Thanks! Mlem does what I'm after

  • Why do so many lemmy clients drop information about other servers?

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  • Oh that is a nice app!!

    Yep, solves all my needs, I'll delete the other apps.

    Thank you

  • Why do so many lemmy clients drop information about other servers?

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  • Yeah, that's where I started. But after setting up then I occasionally wondered if certain communities were around and couldn't search how I want when I happened to be on an app.

    It turns out that Mlem had all the features that I wanted.

  • Why do so many lemmy clients drop information about other servers?

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  • I haven't been around long enough to have a favourite client so this was more of an exploration.

    It turns out that Mlem does everything I wanted so I'm going to switch to that.

    Thanks for taking your time with me

  • Why do so many lemmy clients drop information about other servers?

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  • Yeah, it turns out Mlem does everything I was requesting too so I'll be using that. Thanks!

  • Why do so many lemmy clients drop information about other servers?

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  • The White House - Presidential Action - Columbus Day, 2025

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  • I'm assuming it's because the post is neutral quotes not blind hate and instead of up voting for visibility you're upvoting positions you agree with and can't tell the political position of the post or are scared someone else might see an upvote as being aligned with the administrations actions, but let me know if I'm wrong

    And if I'm right, isn't that just reinforcing most of the behaviour that makes social media, and their influence in politics so problematic. ie. amplified emotions, limited references to sources, and mobs. And aren't those problems / amplifications part of how the US is in its current situation so by taking actions like upvoting the angry reply but not the informative original post helping to consolidate those mechanisms?

  • The White House - Presidential Action - Columbus Day, 2025

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  • If you like this comment then I'm assuming you dislike the way the White House is attempting to frame history. If so then why aren't you also upvoting the post that would increase awareness of these actions?

    As a note, I'm surprised so many of the replies are angry screaming about Columbus instead how official government communication is using such charged, and politically biased language.

  • Why do so many lemmy clients drop information about other servers?

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  • Arctic was abandoned!?? I found it this morning while test different apps and I was really impressed. Well, besides loads being slow and timing out. And that seemed like a strange thing to be unique to specific client.

  • Why do so many lemmy clients drop information about other servers?

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  • TLDR: yeah, I've used the terms interchangeably.

    I somehow started off the day thinking a server was an instance, and that a community was a channel. I fixed the initial post but I've misused the terms a bit since. And I noticed I did again after proofreading one of my replies to you. I can guess why I'm incorrectly saying "instance" (ie a deployed server) but I've got no idea how I started using "channel".

    Sorry for the mixup and for the long-windedness. This post was a bit of a mess for me trying to ask what I thought was a simple question and then trying to clarify.

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  • app allows for searching for communities on an instance-by-instance basis

    Yeah, thanks for this. Any chance you know why? It's pretty easy to do using a browser and I find myself wanting to do it a bit. I don't notice a clickable target or menu item to open the website for the parent server (that would speed up doing things like this even if its not added to the app) and that also makes me think other people haven't had much of a desire for this.

    It makes me wonder if "I'm doing it wrong" or if people have grown into workarounds. Maybe people having alts on a few servers so they can see all communities and have a local feed? Or maybe the user base is so tech heavy that a lot of users are mostly on computers and are mostly pulling out their phones to scroll a feed or write a quick reply?

    (And I only wrote the wrong terms three times this post. Sorry if I missed one.)

  • Why do so many lemmy clients drop information about other servers?

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  • Are you trying to replace the words 'community' and 'instance' with 'channel' and 'server'? Using non-standard terms makes it harder to understand what you're asking for.

    Can you point out where I did this in the section that I labelled as the edited post? (And it was edited quite a few hours before your comment.) Immediately following the correct terms I do call out some mistaken terms I used in the original post and some of the comments and start by apologising for using the wrong term. That seems like a reasonable thing to do.

    I completely agree that I had somehow learned incorrect terms and used the incorrect terms in the original post and that it's confusing. Your rationale here is a huge part of why I rewrote it. I kept the original post at the end, and put a title above it, so that the comments that already existed (that pointed out my mistakes) would read well and wouldn't suddenly change to reflect poorly on the author's.

    What should I have done differently?

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  • Exactly what I was after and one of my initial guesses in the post. Thanks.

    It's a shame, it would be useful

    Actually, maybe not. For #3 I'm trying to search for keywords (that are commonly in the community name) on a given server that I'm not registered to. It would also be nice to search keywords in the text of a post that are in any post on a given server, that is not the one I'm registered to.

    ie. keyword = "scuba", server = ${known australia server}, match is one of community names or posts.

    Edit note: Wow I have an issue with saying instance when I mean server and channel when I mean community

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  • I'm a bit confused. I think you're suggesting I add any community I want to find to that tool so it's searchable. Isn't that a chicken or the egg problem? If I have already found and subscribed to the channel, I don't have a reason to be searching for it. It could help other users, but like I say in my other comment, I don't think this is a sync issue, it seems to be an issue with the client / server implementation of the string matching.

    Or I'm misunderstanding and then I'm sorry.

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  • I think I get what you're saying now and I don't think it's a syncing issue, I think it's a string matching issue. I think I've explained why in another comment (in the list as #2), linked here so it's faster to find:

    https://mander.xyz/comment/22639657

  • Why do so many lemmy clients drop information about other servers?

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    1. Community sidebars are. But servers also have sidebars that sometimes include information that applies to the nested communities / users and I don't know how to see those in the Voyager or Arctic iPhone apps.
    2. I did mean community. Sorry. And I don't think it's that. I personally am subscribed to a number of lemmy.world communities so the should be synced to the server I'm on, but they only display in search if there is a text match, not a server / ID march:

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  • Thanks for taking the time. I updated my question a little to clarify and finished just before you posted.

    I mostly just want a way to find communities on other instances and I don't think this reply helps unblock in-app solutions to that, but I did learn a lot so thanks. For example, if I learn of an australian server and want to see if there are any channels that would be worth scrolling / subscribing for an upcoming trip. I could search a bunch of terms and still not find an obvious community that I would find by loading the servers website and navigating to the community list and it would be nice to be able to do this inside the app, or have a clickable target that loads the server.

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  • To be clear. I would like these three things:

    1. To be able to see the different sidebars that are visible if you load these two sites (not only the instance I'm registered to):
    1. To be able to scroll each of these channels lists separately and independent of channels from other instances (not only the instance I'm registered to):
    2. To be able to search "ask lemmy.ml" filtered by channels and see "https://lemmy.ml/c/asklemmy" show up in some way.

    I'm not sure your comment addresses that, or if it does, which one.

  • Why are so many lemmy clients channel focused?

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  • Yeah, I started on Voyager. Seeing channels and sidebar for the instance my account is registered to works and easy to find / navigate to.

    For other instances, you say that you have to "go" to the other instance. I find it easy to go to a known community on the other instance. And I find it easy to find the sidebar for a known community on another instance. How do I go to the other instance and not the community though?

    For example on load, it loads Post > Home (I think this is configurable in settings so not everyone but it's not so important for these steps). Then you can click Communities in the menu. Then if you are subscribed to a community that is on a different instance you can click it and open it. When you open the sidebar, the sidebar is for that community, not the instance. I see no way to:

    • Click on the instance
    • Open the sidebar for the instance (not the community)
    • See a list of channels on that instance

    I clicked around a little, but sorry if I'm missing something obvious.

    As an example of the difference in the sidebar for different instances you load these two URLs and compare:

    And the channels that would be nice to scroll separately are:

    Interestingly though, the sidebar for lemmy.ml doesn't say much and wouldn't have helped me with the behaviour that caused me to drop "asklemmy@lemmy.ml". Someone explicitly said that the ml stood for Marxist Leninists and plenty of users tends to write as if that's true and also be a bit more militant / ideological than I prefer in my interactions… but it's completely missing from any mention in the sidebar.

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    Why do so many lemmy clients drop information about other servers?

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    Why are so many lemmy clients channel focused?

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