users can move between them freely

but… they really cant though can they? atm, every community on beehaw just lost a massive chunk of their userbase, and they can’t even move to a diff instance. Masto allows you to automatically move your followers to a new account on a new instance, but there just isn’t that option on Lemmy

You can but it might be a little unstable. Post from mastodon and mention @community@instance.url to make a post

I’m seeing a lot of people having issues with accidentally getting bounced to the wrong instance. I have a friend who got confused and gave up on fedi I think because of the confusion from this same issue.

Using a client does help though

Clicking a link should first check if the link is to another lemmy instance, and if it is it should attempt to open that post while remaining in this instance.

I think if you use Lemmy (and mastodon and other fedi platforms) through a client you can avoid this issue. I use Tusky and Pinafore for mastodon, but haven’t found a good one yet for lemmy

Mlem looks great! IOS only though rip

Making links not redirect to other instances you’re not logged in to

definitely this

Yeah a good Lemmy client app would probably help users migrate easier. I tried the only one on the android play store (Jebril) but it crashes immediately when I log in

It’s gonna take a while for the chaos of everyone migrating from Reddit to die down and for the place to become useable.

Also, Lemmy seems to have the same annoying friction Masto has where it’s too easy to get redirected to another instance’s webpage. You suddenly can’t comment, like, or basically do anything and it’s not immediately obvious why.

Once again suggesting federated social media start using a centralized frontend on one single website and just let the servers themselves be federated. You would go to the same one website, ex lemmy.com and log into your chosen instance, staying logged in even if you visit another instance.