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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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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Currently users of Lemmy are "power users". The fact that power users can't even work out how to use Lemmy 'properly' is sign of its future

[–] ChemicalRascal 12 points 1 year ago

It's arguably a sign that there is need for refinement, but don't throw the baby out with the bathwater, jeez. Every platforms' early days were much like this. Reddit was pretty shit at first. YouTube was pretty shit at first. And so on.

Nothing comes to life without teething pains. We're literally on day two for most users, it's bizarre to be saying anything about Lemmy's future this early.

[–] BeMoreCareful 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Idk, I got here and I'm sort of an idjit

[–] Tarzan9192 4 points 1 year ago

Me too!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It's not like it's a finished product. It's a Work in Progress. I'm watching the progress of the project for some time, and it seems for me that the first priority was to get the UX on one instance right (which IMHO makes totally sense). Basic federation support came more recently and will get better, I'm sure of it. Once that is a more smooth experience I think it will organically get more diverse.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Power users?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's a term that broadly refers to people with more experience in a technology and more ability to extract use from it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, unlike youtube, Lemmy has a lot of refined competition already for people to jump to out of frustration

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

What competition? Do you have links?