I found a major communication problem with public perception of Lemmy. they seem to think a community is tied to a particular instance
I found a major communication problem with public perception of Lemmy. they seem to think a community is tied to a particular instance
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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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.
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.
I like the idea of topic dedicated instances. Warframe, one of my favorite games ever, has their own instance and it's chugging along.
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.
The instance I'm on is for science! mander.xyz
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?
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.
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]
Okay thank you didn't know that.
I don't believe most Lemmy users will tolerate maintaining more than one account on once instance. If I can't see it from my account, then it doesn't exist. This is all starting to sound like old school phpbb forum with new paint.
You don't need more than one account. You just decide which instance you want an account on, then subscribe to all the topics you care about across multiple instances. I just think that generalist instances with thousands of local topics are unnecessary.
Why would you create a new account to browse the startrek dedicated instance instead of subscribing to the community that lives on their instance?
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
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.
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.
The idea is that you browse your feed of subscriptions, not that you literally go to an instance and browse their local feed.