this post was submitted on 14 Aug 2023
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Will dbzer0 posts show up in the Subscribed feed if it's not hosted on lemmy.world? Will it get sorted by Hot?
Why can't lemmy.world simply redirect users to dbzer0? Why are the communities effectively shadow banned? If the main concern is lemmy.world not wanting to actually host them, rather than hiding them and trying to pretend they don't exist, why can't there just be some sort of placeholder that informs users that they cannot access this community on lemmy.world and they need to go-
-ya know what? I got halfway through writing that and got tired of it. This is exhausting, and I've been here for 2 months.
Lemmy needs an app or a UI that unites all this in a simple fashion so users don't have to go through all this every time an admin decides to get picky with what they're willing to host. All this shit need to be behind the curtain. Users should just be able to use any instance and see anything on Lemmy they want to see, whether the admins host it on their server or not.