This is really awesome and I'm happy to finally have my favorite subreddit back but, y'know, not on reddit. However, we need more people here. I know the discord still has people making the jump and all, but we really should work out ways of making this more publicly known. I dream of the day when there are thousands of people posting hog.
I completely agree about everything! I wonder how hard it would be to make a super simple web wrapper app that just opens the lemmy (like some newspapers have)? I'm much more of a game programmer than an app one but I guess I could take a look.
And yeah, interestingly enough I think the communities thing is actually one of the few things that worked better on Discord with the channels, with the relatively slow trickle of new replies in the individual channels working better as an ongoing discussion vs. hypothetically a trickle of thin posts.
In theory it is simple, and the Rust back-end of Lemmy provides a REST API for something like that to be built off of, but it is work.