It’s excruciatingly obnoxious to have to rely on third party sources for what should be a first-party feature.

Like, I select all and then search a query. “Oh no, nobody on your server used a third party service to find it, so you won’t see it here.”

Like, how short-sighted is that, really? If I search for a string in the ‘all’ servers, I should have a list of ‘all’ the servers containing that string.

It’s a really simple concept. Not sure why this post even has to be made, but I’m wondering if there’s something I can do to make these ‘features’ more intuitive.

  • bobman@unilem.orgOP
    912·
    1 year ago

    Uh… no it’s not.

    I’m sorry, but what you’re doing is actively making this service harder to use by suggesting that ‘all’ should only mean ‘the communities other community members have subscribed to that contain that string.’

    Where do the community members even find the the ones to subscribe to? Oh, they use a third-party service or ‘just know’ because… whatever reason.

    Gee, fediverse design strikes again. Sorry, it has to be said. It really does.

    • TheInsane42@lemmy.worldEnglish
      52·
      1 year ago

      The Internet also has all information made available to it, not all information that is in the universe. Same as the fediverse users, internet users rely on search engines to find what they are looking for.

      When all would mean all available in fediverse you would get issues:

      • even the smallest instance would explode like lemmy.world
      • to much choice makes people freeze up
      • you’d get reddit/facebook all over again. (with the required corporate mess as you need to play loads of employers to support the environment to supply the intel to the bubble that wants it)

      It’s to the user to search what he wants to see. I for one have 3 ‘main’ accounts (world, ml and studio) and I subscribe to specific communities for each account (ml for development, studio for music related, world for ‘rest’) and each one I open the feed with subscribed. I’m totally not interested in all, to much junk (even on Lemmy).

      To freely quote: All, you want all? You can’t handle all. ;)

      • bobman@unilem.orgOP
        24·
        1 year ago

        I cannot believe you’re making this argument.

        I’m sorry, I can, and it’s a big reason why fediverse design has a lot of progress to make.

          • bobman@unilem.orgOP
            12·
            1 year ago

            🥱

            Calm down buddy. Your analogy has no water and you’re clearly fueled by emotion.

            Take a step back, breath some fresh air, then come back when you’re ready to discuss civilly. Right now you’ve said nothing of substance.

        • TheInsane42@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          1 year ago

          I can’t believe this reaction. You sound like you think CompuServ was internet and got replaced by Google. (or even didn’t now the time before Google)

          I admit that it would be nice to have a list of all available communities when looking at the all list in the communities section. When federating with another node, don’t get everything, just the community list or the other node so people can subscribe when they want to. But it’s just a nice to have, not a huge issue worth stating that ‘a lot’ is needed.

          There were (and still are) separate communities before digg and reddit, the latter got to big for their own good and now the federated solution has nodes with a few to a lot of communities. It’s a nice balance between the fragmented communities before the big corporation invasion and the colossal sites. Pick what you like and when you like the Reddit setup, they’re still alive. (although the content quality is dropping fast)