I think this place is too fragmented into instances to ever generate a front page anywhere near what r/all is.
If I understand this page right, https://lemm.ee will never show the top post of the day from https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/, https://discuss.tchncs.de/, or https://feddit.uk/.
And the “front page/general” site is already split into several instances (https://vlemmy.net/, https://lemmy.world/, https://sh.itjust.works/, https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/ and https://lemmy.one/, all claiming to be “a general front page lemmy instance”)
So what’s the deal, which one are we betting on as the place to direct all the new traffic? What’s the contender for primary public internet bulletin board? Right now the arrow to an alternative is looking like this: https://i.imgur.com/L1XsBy6.pngd
I’m personally guessing the conclusion is already reached; We have no place we’re betting on. We’re disinterested in pushing for any particular result. We don’t expect people to migrate. Many might not even want them to.
The top posts from all of those instances will have a chance to appear on your front page of lemm.ee, as long as at least one lemm.ee user has previously subscribed to the community those top posts are posted on!
If you put your front page on “subscribed”, then you will see posts from all communities you are subscribed to, regardless of whether these communities are lemmy.ml, feddit.uk or any other instance.
If you put your front page on “all”, you will see posts from ALL communities that have at least one subscriber on lemm.ee (again, regardless of what instance these communities are housed on).
So to be clear, you have nothing to worry about! 😃
Let me know if any of this doesn’t make sense, I’m happy to explain further.
Hello everybody! I’m posting from a completely different instance/website, this post showed up on my front page since someone at my place is subscribing to your Meta community and we all see your posts over here!
I would suggest the site set up the option to view the top/hot/active posts from all instances regardless of having anyone subscribed.
Or, in a hacky way, make an instance with a “bot-user” that is subscribed to every single community in every single instance (and automatically subscribes to any new community and instance that gets created), and send that page to people looking to migrate from Spez’s Spazspot.
And let me be clear, I’m not really worried, just a little disappointed to see so little successful exploitation of this situation.
To be honest, effectively that’s the result anyway, as I believe most communities that get very popular posts already have at least 1 subscriber on lemm.ee, and there’s no reason to expect this trend to ever change.
I don’t think it’s a robust enough system, and it’s too convoluted to make the site an easy sell to a userbase like reddit’s.
I’m still not clear on whether you actually want their users, though.