Well in my case it’s perfectly clear that the problem was defederation because the comments I was able to see with my feddit instance were all there precisely up to the point where a person from lemmy.fmhy.ml, an instance that is blocked on feddit, posted something and everything that was in context of that post was gone when viewed from feddit.
I feel you. When creating an UI you can think of thousands of possibilities which might not be clear to someone however obvious they seem and then design it in a way that couldn’t possibly be misunderstood, then show it to different people who all agree that it’s clearly structured and logical… and the minute you release it you get posts from users where you ask yourself how they could even exist on their own.
But that only helps in knowing which communities I can see, I still don’t know how much I’m missing out in the comments on other communities because some of them might be from people my instance has defederated.
I noticed this today when I had a comment chain on lemmy.world that I accesed with my lemm.ee instance. That chain was >10 posts long with several different users from different instances.
When I looked into that community with my feddit.de account, I could only see the first two comments of that chain, not even my own lemm.ee comments were visible despite not being blocked by feddit.de.
It was because the third post of that chain was made by a user on an instance that is blocked by feddit.de and that lead to all following posts also missing.
So now I’m feeling like I’m possibly missing big parts of all those comment sections just because they happen to include a comment be from a user of a blocked instance somewhere early in the chain.
Reddit isn’t totally free of this problem (feature) either–You can have multiple subreddits dedicated to the same topic.
True, but there you don’t have the problem that you can access subreddit “gamingB” but not “gamingA” because you happen to be logged in on an instance that defederated “gamingA”.
You can just access all of the different subreddits with one account and freely choose on which on you’d like to post and always able to see every post ever made in every sub.
With Lemmy as it is now, I don’t even know if the posts I see in a community on InstanceA really are all posts because there might be posts made by people on InstanceB that is blocked by InstanceC that I’m accessing the community of InstanceA with.
That’s my biggest concern right now.
I noticed this today when I had a comment chain on lemmy.world that I accesed with my lemm.ee instance. That chain was >10 posts long with several different users from different instances.
When I looked into that community with my feddit.de account, I could only see the first two comments of that chain, not even my own lemm.ee comments were visible despite not being blocked by feddit.de.
It was because the third post of that chain was made by a user on an instance that is blocked by feddit.de and that lead to all following posts also missing.
So now I’m feeling like I’m possibly missing big parts of all those comment sections just because I happen to be on an instance that blocked someone that might participate in them.
Hell, I don’t even know if you can see this post because it could be that your instance defederated from my instance.
It’s also heavily dependend on getting used to it. There are games that have a quality and a performance mode where I sometimes start to think I’m at 60FPS until I switch to the actual 60FPS mode and realize that it’s a completely different feeling. Switching back lets those 30FPS seem pretty bad. But if I didn’t had the possibility of switching between those two, I would’ve been happy with the 30
Remembere Red Dead Redemption 2? On PC, your stats depleted faster the more FPS you had so with 60FPS you’d get hungry twice as fast as with 30FPS. Iirc even the sun moved faster so a day was only half as long.
I don’t use many extensions, but apart from the usual UBlock Origin I’ll say something exotic: UltraWideo
Because sites like disney+ still don’t know that 21:9 monitors exist so you have to force it to scale their 21:9 films to your monitor instead of giving you black bars on all sides