Or why Lemmy is too much like hard work
The sole admin of the first instance I joined (which isn’t small) has gone missing. So it’s been defederated by some other instances. Then re-federated by some of them.
So about six weeks ago I made an account with instance two, which seems to be well run BUT updates to the latest version so it doesn’t work with any of the third party apps I use.
Which wouldn’t be an issue except the Lemmy web UI works horribly on mobile. There’s a PWA but that hasn’t been updated and won’t now authenticate.
So I joined a third instance but that seems to have completely disappeared without warning.
I’d join Lemmy.world but it has regular resource issues and downtime. Plus moderation issues.
App 1 hasn’t seen any development for over three months and now barely functions.
App 2 which is apparently the second most popular app now only receives emergency fixes when it won’t work at all
Apps 3 and 4 throw authentication errors on any instance running above 0.18.4 because the developers are re-thinking.
As a user it’s almost enough to send me to Reddit.
There is, I mentioned in my other comment: https://github.com/CMahaff/lasim
Have you tried it? It’s unfortunately not reliable.
Have you tried it or are you just repeating stuff you’ve heard online? Because you seem to have encountered every issue people could possibly run into.
I had to run it several times but it eventually did what it’s supposed to and now I hardly even notice I’m on a different instance.
I did, twice. It was before the release of 18.5 however, so I guess the dev might need to update it (even though it might still work as it is)