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5.) Not being able to create your own custom feeds is also a massive problem because you can’t split your feed into types like memes/news/discussions/meta etc.
This is a big one for me - on R, one can create a "multireddit" (collection view of multiple subreddits in one combined feed) without subscribing to any of the communities; for example I have one called "news" that's 10+ news subreddits which I do not subscribe to; subscriptions are for my actual real direct interests only. Subscribing to news specific communities can quickly overrun and bury your Subscribed feed.
Lemmy as a software platform is missing the entire concept of a multireddit and detracts from it's usefulness for certain types of users such as myself; I still get most of my daily news from R and sadly gaming communities did not migrate en masse to lemmyverse so they're all still on R.
Inconvenient on webUI (standard/stock) as the images in the post content are forced to fit in a small dimension (css juju) and they're not clickable to see the larger version to read the written words etc. I think the latter can be solved with some Markdown like...
...which is this horrible Markdown stanza:
[](https://feddit.nl/pictrs/image/043d174a-9855-4939-a7e2-6cca586b3443.webp)
...but it provides the "expand to large size on click" that's missing. $0.02 hth!
Edit: I just noticed that in it's original form (no-click), when I rightmouse "open in new tab" is available but "open in new Private window" (Firefox) is not. On my hacked up make-it-clickable Markdown test here, the "open in new Private window" is available again. I, a random internet user, open almost all links in Private windows in all my browsing - keeps trash cookies off my system and transient URLs (like these images) out of my History.
I mostly just want to ensure mine is visible to others.
This is the tricky part - you will be remote-invisible until someone from the other instance(s) follow you for any of your content to show up in their Explore (hashtags, etc.) feed for other people to discover you. Pixelfed.social is the biggest hub by far so getting on that radar is key (much like joining a small Mastodon instance and you want to be "seen" on mastodon.social e.g. - same processes).
So you want to follow yourself from your pixelfed.social account to your own domain.com, so that your domain.com profile is seeded (federated) for other pixelfed.social users to discover as they browse. It's a hack but there's no other real way given how "opt-in" federation works, unless you have pre-existing friends on pixelfed.social who subscribe to your domain.com for you right away so you don't have to hack it to get started.
In addition to nifty.sh for UP as recommended, you might be interested in Conversations.im, an actively developed, well known XMPP client with mobile optimizations[1] to keep battery use low which can act as your UP broker (distributor) on the device. Note they talk about needing a proxy to convert message types at the bottom: https://unifiedpush.org/users/distributors/conversations/
[1] using two XEPs outlined on their site: https://conversations.im/#features -> Mobile optimizations
I can access and browse the site fine in a private window in Firefox (desktop/laptop). https://pxlmo.com/pxlmo e.g. pulls right up and functions as expected.
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Wed Jan 22 02:39:06 PM UTC 2025
OP is referring to the community on realbitcoin.cash instance, not World.
Federation of a forge has all the downsides of Lemmy federation multiplied - the implication is that I could issue a remote PR or a remote Issue (whatever) against a project with ill intent (trolls, spammers, whatever) instead of having a local account on that forge. sounds cool but...
...now besides only your own forge instance users, you now have to deal with "the whole world" being able to shit on your Git projects if they want to do so, until their bad-actor federated forge instance gets blocked. This is all beside the technical problems of how to integrate remote users into your workflows.
Forge federation has (to me) a large "social spam" problem of negatives to solve first. $0.02
Pixelix just showed up on F-Droid two days ago, the dev open-sourced their code just recently. I find it to be a "better" (subjective :) ) client than PixelDroid after testing it for a bit. $0.02 to any readers. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.daniebeler.pfpixelix/
It somewhat mirrors Lemmy communities showing up - someone has to subscribe to your PF profile from another instance in order for your content to show up in that instance's "explore" type feed (e.g. browsing a hashtag like say #caturday). In essence your profile has to be "seeded" by someone on a remote instance in the Mastodon/Pixelfed environment.
So for example if you're at @[email protected] and I'm on, say, pixelfed.de or pixelfed.social, if nobody on .de or .social subscribes to your profile on .art then your content never reaches random humans on .de or .social until at least one person subscribes to you from there to trigger federation of your specific profile.
One hack is to create a second/third account on the popular server(s) and follow yourself on the less well-known server until you get natural organic followers on that remote platform so that your content shows up in that popular, remote instance explore feeds. shrug
nod the point was (in fun) to exemplify not doing what the GP comment to this thread was talking about; here we have a positive example of a user creating a single space to post any/all of their "niche" (eye of the beholder) content, rather than creating tiny communities for each interest. It was a light-hearted comment "see, like this". :) (disclaimer: I'm subscribed)