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Are we using Lemmy correctly? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If I like LOTR and giraffes I don’t want to create an account on both “instance groups”.

But you don't have to create accounts on multiple instances. You can subscribe, post, and mod communities on other federated servers.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But then what's the point of separating them into instances in the first place?

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

The full list of federated communities is getting too big to just scroll and find things, especially since I can't sort by name. I may not know what community name to search for. There's a lemmy.studio instance that someone started for music production topics. I can go list communities in that instance to see what I didn't realize I wanted to. It's all six of one, half a dozen of the other. We have general purpose and focused instances now, so everybody is free to choose which they want.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Then what happens when the owner of the giraffe instance goes all Spez on us?

Too much control is a bad thing. Let people spread those communities across all instances, otherwise I'll be asking:

How am I to live without my giraffes?!

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

What about when the owner of the general purpose instance closes the whole instance over some BS in the WhyIsThisIllegal community and now your girrafe gifs are collateral damage? You going to stick your neck out them then?

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

Of course I won't, but, the beauty of this is that you can just create another community in another instance. That way, my giraffe viewing party continues no matter where they reside.