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I found a major communication problem with public perception of Lemmy. they seem to think a community is tied to a particular instance (www.reddit.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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This is a big problem. It creates the illusion that /c/cats on one particular instance is the real /c/cats.

This is the root of re-centralization and it must be pulled out.

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I think part of the issue is that all the different Lemmy and kbin instances are trying to be Reddit themselves. By which I mean there are a bunch of instances with no focus. They're all "kitchen sink" instances, each with their own Politics, Tech, Cats, etc.

Lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, kbin.social, fedia.io. All of them are generic reddit alternatives, but the real reddit alternative is the amalgamation of subscriptions from multiple more focused instances.

Startrek.website is a great example of the opposite: it's an instance focused on one topic, where some people will want to sign up as a user and others will want to just subscribe to one of their three (!) boards from their own instance. They don't need their own Politics topic, users on the site that care about it will subscribe to a politics topic from another instance. The startrek admins and mods only have to care about their one focus.

My ideal fediverse feed would be pulling individual topics from a few dozen more focused instances instead of one generalist instance. I think that's what's going to end up happening.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

I like filling up my feed with some content while I figure this stuff out. It'll be easy to ditch the annoying instances once I know what I'm doin.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I like the idea of topic dedicated instances. Warframe, one of my favorite games ever, has their own instance and it's chugging along.

https://dormi.zone/

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There are 3 instance for *.nz, lemmy.nz, no.lastname.nz and feddit.nz

@[email protected] and I (no.lastname.nz) have been workin together so we don't overlap with nz based communities, with Dave concentrating on general NZ communities and I'm concentrating on more environmental type communities (Wildlife/Outdoors/Trees[therapeutic use based])

We probably need more collaboration for smaller communities, but there will always be different takes on topics and moderation.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

The instance I'm on is for science! mander.xyz

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

I am a lemmy.ml user and don't think it is being or trying to be reddit. Maybe some of the users but that isn't the instance in awhole. Your idea sounds nice until I learn I have to signup to all thesee diffrent instances, or am I missing something?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

You don't have to sign up to different instances. You can just join the sublemms and it will show up on your feed.

It's like having an email and signing up to different newsletters through other sites.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You don't have to sign up on multiple sites, you just subscribe to specific channels you care about from the site you signed up for. For instance, signing up to lemmy.ml's Politics, Lemmy.world's Tech, and fedia.io's Cats.

For instance, here's a link to [email protected] that you can interact with and subscribe to from your Lemmy.ml account: https://lemmy.ml/c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Okay thank you didn't know that.