Maybe a frontend or app that just shows you everything and allows you to interact easily without worrying about logins or urls for instances, and pushes the federation aspect “behind the scenes”.
Let's say I'm browsing Lemmy.world through this frontend and I stumbled upon !privacy@lemmy.ml. Would the following be clear?
Ah, good point.
It really doesn’t matter much to the user how many comments are going to be loaded next in my opinion, and that keeps it simple on our end.
Here's what trips me up: even if I don't display the number, I still need to know whether extra comments can be loaded on that depth. If not I don't want to display a "Load more". You could of course let the "Load more" load hidden comments at any level of that subtree, but I think that causes unexpected behavior.
Maybe this clarifies what I'm talking about:
In the case on the right, there's an unexpected downward shift of content which may disorient the user.
Thanks - I'll remove this post and create one there.
I feel your pain and I'm hoping I can help! I'm making a web UI that aims to be easier to use than existing ones.