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This is that part where people trying to bail on Reddit need to remember that this is NOT Reddit. Lemmy is similar to Reddit but is not designed to replace Reddit as a SINGULAR centralized entity ^hence, yknow, all the decentralized talk.^
If you only want one server, with one set of communities, there are alternatives in the works. If you want to use Lemmy, you need to shift your expectations. The entire point here is that while one c/aww may "win," you can still have your own c/aww on your instance as a completely separate entity that can be ran and moderated differently by different people, and person C can have their own c/aww again independent of the others.
You can follow one, you can follow all, but they remain separate communities on separate instances.
I like to think of it as a bunch of Discord servers (in a way). Each server is run by the owner / their moderation and can have different channels and rules in said server.
The idea of a "super community" doesnt seem like a bad one, but I'd rather have it be an aggregation of said communities then making it all one thing.
... Like maybe super list of c/aww communities that you can subscribe to at once.
I'm certainly not opposed to a way to make personal aggregate.......things, but the problem is these people want it to be done by the service/devs/whatever. They aren't asking for an ability to pick and choose communities to build a personal "super community" for themselves client side, they want all the c/aww's to be automatically pulled together by a central authority - the thing they're fleeing and came here for the lack of.
I've heard people are working on 1 for 1 Reddit clones, and I'd really like to see those people just go support those projects instead of getting mad that the thing advertising a lack of central authority has no central authority and demanding devs "LiStEn To ThEiR uSeRs" and institute one.
I'll give people the benefit of the doubt. Coming from a centralized service means people are used to things working in a certain way, and they may just not have considered all the advantages of not being forced into a single, centralized service.
I can get that, and have been overall understanding. I've been trying to do my part to explain this isn't that - it's the uptick in hostility over it that has me irate. "I don't get it," "not for me," all fine. "Devs need to make it work like Reddit or else" can fuck off.
I hear you. Yes, not a fan of people being hostile just because something is different.
I'm just hoping that people who enjoy this experience will stay and that more people who also like this experience will join, and that people who want everything to be exactly like Reddit will return to Reddit or to some Reddit-like platform that works exactly like Reddit.