Yeah this pisses me off because the ADHD Lemmy community lives on lemmy.world , but I’m signed up to beehaw, which recently announced they’re “de-federating” from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works for reasons… and now I have to keep multiple accounts with hopefully my same online handle just to see all my communities I’m subscribed to in a single feed like Reddit does? Ugh… fucking headache. Or run my own lemmy instance? I don’t want to do that… I want a “front page to the internet.”
> now I have to keep multiple accounts with hopefully my same online handle just to see all my communities I’m subscribed to in a single feed like Reddit does?
better than losing literally everything because beehaw shut down. I already manage multiple accounts for multiple types of communities (including HN), at least the interfaces between these sites are somewhat similar and under a common protocol.
>I want a “front page to the internet.”
I'd rather not have all my eggs in one basket at this point.
But this did oddly remind me of RSS feeds, which were meant to do all this. Minus the modern UI, of course. Do these federated communities support RSS?
That’s a really good point actually. I’d definitely take the time to setup RSS feeds for each thing if it gave me the sort of experience I’m after. I’ll miss the comments sections though since that’s where a ton of golden information from Reddit came from.
> This is not and is not meant to be a Reddit replacement. The original community here has decided to carve out a space for itself because we grew increasingly upset with modern social media.
A project 'tafkars' (The Api Formerly Known As..), pronounced 'tuff cars', has started that's designed to be a proxy for the reddit api that can be tied into lemmy etc. The idea being that all existing apps that rely on the reddit api can be redirected.
They are looking for contributors, either folks who know Rust or otherwise just happy to do some legwork sniffing around the reddit api.
