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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] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why would you create a new account to browse the startrek dedicated instance instead of subscribing to the community that lives on their instance?

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

You create an account there probably because you are a star trek fan and want to show it off

Hell, they could've disabled account registration and just hosted the communities. Lemmy allows for that kind of flexibility

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I just meant the other user seemed to think you had to create an account for every federated instance you wanted to interact with.

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

Also, this might just be personal experience, but so far I'm finding it far easier to browse a single community on no matter what general instance rather than going through a separate topic-focused instance.

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

The idea is that you browse your feed of subscriptions, not that you literally go to an instance and browse their local feed.