One of the nice things this time around is that Lemmy has really crystallized as an ecosystem. It’s missing some significant niches, but now people who need a working example, and can’t just envision it based off of the concept, can see it truly in action, instead of just seeing Leninist wankery.
It’s missing some pretty mainstream interests, as well. Some of my favorite parts of reddit from the before times related to sports, television, music, etc., and there just isn’t a critical mass on any lemmy community to really get that robust dialogue going.
The biggest problem is that federation splits the communities between instances. So a single interest may have 5-10 different communities, all with fewer users than on an equivalent subreddit.
I’ve been saying this since the beginning, Lemmy needs a way to follow topics that allow you to subscribe to all related communities at once. And posting to a topic on one community allows it to show up across different communities of the same topic.
I don’t know if I agree with you. Your idea of following a topic over all communities is a solid one, for sure. Not sure I would agree with a comment being posted across all. Maybe an option for cross-posting, should one wish? How would you deal with the replies though, like certainly that all couldn’t be cross posted, could it?. I just think it would get too complicated in a hurry, that’s all. I like your ingenuity, anyways.
I kind of wonder if Bluesky, while it is sus, will help get people more comfortable with the concept of federation, which will lead to more people looking into federated platforms
I genuinely don’t think so. Even though it’s technically federated, it’s still mostly under a thin veneer of an “App”, and hiding its true nature.
It’d be more like if Lemmy.world released its mobile app, that could connect to any other Lemmy instance, but that buried that functionality enough that 98% of people downloading it just ended up on LW.
That’s not really federation, and it’s definitely not doing anything to make people comfortable with the idea.
One of the nice things this time around is that Lemmy has really crystallized as an ecosystem. It’s missing some significant niches, but now people who need a working example, and can’t just envision it based off of the concept, can see it truly in action, instead of just seeing Leninist wankery.
Future waves should, hopefully, be stickier.
It’s missing some pretty mainstream interests, as well. Some of my favorite parts of reddit from the before times related to sports, television, music, etc., and there just isn’t a critical mass on any lemmy community to really get that robust dialogue going.
The biggest problem is that federation splits the communities between instances. So a single interest may have 5-10 different communities, all with fewer users than on an equivalent subreddit.
I’ve been saying this since the beginning, Lemmy needs a way to follow topics that allow you to subscribe to all related communities at once. And posting to a topic on one community allows it to show up across different communities of the same topic.
I don’t know if I agree with you. Your idea of following a topic over all communities is a solid one, for sure. Not sure I would agree with a comment being posted across all. Maybe an option for cross-posting, should one wish? How would you deal with the replies though, like certainly that all couldn’t be cross posted, could it?. I just think it would get too complicated in a hurry, that’s all. I like your ingenuity, anyways.
I kind of wonder if Bluesky, while it is sus, will help get people more comfortable with the concept of federation, which will lead to more people looking into federated platforms
I genuinely don’t think so. Even though it’s technically federated, it’s still mostly under a thin veneer of an “App”, and hiding its true nature.
It’d be more like if Lemmy.world released its mobile app, that could connect to any other Lemmy instance, but that buried that functionality enough that 98% of people downloading it just ended up on LW.
That’s not really federation, and it’s definitely not doing anything to make people comfortable with the idea.