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Are we using Lemmy correctly? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 1 year ago by _finger_ to c/[email protected]

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What I think could make Lemmy superior to Reddit is the ability to create themed-instances that are all linked together which feels like the entire point. I've noticed that a lot of instances are trying to be a catch-all Reddit replacement by imitating specific subs which is understandable given the circumstances but seems like it's not taking advantage of the full power that Lemmy could have.

Imagine for a moment that instances were more focus-based. Instead of having communities that are all mostly unrelated we had entire instances that are focused on one specific area of expertise or interest. Imagine a LOTR instance that had many sub-communities (in this case "communities" would be the wrong way to look at it, it would be more like categories) that dealt with different subjects in the LOTR universe: books, movies, lore, gaming, art, etc all in the same instance.

Imagine the types of instances that could be created with more granular categories within to better guide conversations: Baseball, Cars, Comics, Movies, Tech etc.

A tech instance could have dedicated communities for news, programming, dev, IT, Microsoft, Apple, iOS, linux. Or you could make it even more granular by having a dedicated instance for each of those because there's so many categories that could be applied to each.

What are your thoughts?

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[–] _finger_ 2 points 1 year ago

I think it's worth a try to see what happens, the concern of giving too much power to one instance for one topic is definitely valid but there's also a benefit to it as well. Maybe Im looking at it wrong, in that the accounts are separated for each instance so for example if I wanted to only see posts from your board game instance I'd need to switch accounts rather than add all the communities to my .world instance which could get messy and not preferable in some cases. What might make it more effective and granular is the ability to add multiple categories or topic sections in your instance. For instance if you created a board games community in Lemmy.world there's no ability to do this aside from creating separate communities for each subcategory of niche interests. So instead of being able to create Lemmy.world/boardgames/StarWars or Lemmy.world/boardgames/LOTR you have to create Lemmy.world/starwarsboardgames or Lemmy.world/lotrboardgames. which can get a bit messy.