I wrote about this on my blog. I like the notion and points made here, but I also think we’re not helping by re-inventing things that already exist, so I’m torn on it. I have been happy with the existing one.

“new” == ~3 years old (but looking to move from alpha to beta in 2024 IIRC). It’s a good server!

For what platform?

tl;dr the Fediverse is not great at UX of the cross-instance stuff, yet.

There’s a browser extension to make cross-instance user following simpler on Mastodon (Graze); that means you can just click to follow a user from your home instance, on any Mastodon instance. I think the same concept could be modified to apply to subscribing to Lemmy communities between instances.

I think this is more of a general Lemmy issue than something specific to Lemmy.world, but I agree with your point that this should be easier!

Currently playing Boltgun, because I’m an ageing W40K fan from the 1980s :-)

As of recently, I am officially helping Mastodon with developer relations and documentation! I also do some promotion / writing and speaking, and other work with the MicroPython project - and the Awesome MicroPython list. Beyond that, I offer a bunch of drive-by pull requests to smaller projects that I use, when I can!

I’m a supporting member of the EFF, PSF, and OSI (I ran the OSI booth at State of Open this year), and I am an ambassador for OpenUK

Thank you for OctoPrint! I love it!

Fantastic! (and thank you to both Michelle and Kyle for stepping up to support the instance)

In case you’re interested, there’s also a cross-fediverse initiative around trust and safety etc, that you may want to connect with in the future.

also no issues - so far.

Great to see the progress!