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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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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (10 children)

My thoughts are what if the instance admins or mods are pricks? What if the instance shuts down?

I think the power of the fediverse is that there is redundancy with the communities on different instances. I feel like it's a very human need to have everything neatly organized and in its place, but the internet is all about redundancy to ensure no single points of failure.

The fediverse mimics that by creating a web of small related communities, spread out over multiple instances, ran by different people, rather than a giant single community for one thing, on one instance, run by one person.

[โ€“] _finger_ 7 points 1 year ago (8 children)

This was the case with Reddit as well, there were a lot of competing subs created due to shitty mods and rules so I don't think it'd be much different in this case

[โ€“] FermatsLastAccount 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There was a r/Yankees subreddit that had awful mods, so some people created r/Nyyankees and basically everyone moved there.

[โ€“] ChemicalRascal 1 points 1 year ago

Presumably we'll see that happen here as well, just potentially at a higher level, with instances rather than just communities.

I recently had to migrate my Mastodon account (home.social shut down, for... frankly frustrating reasons, but whatever). It was a pretty painful process, and none of my old toots exist as a result.

Hopefully we can figure this out with Lemmy, and in doing so, make migration painless enough that it can even be a common occurrence without a loss of data and content. Let's not forget that one of the great things about Reddit is (was, I guess) that old threads still contain relevant information from passionate enthusiasts.

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