How big is lemmy nowadays
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I feel like doing that automatically would just encourage instances to defederate if their larger communities didn't like the cut of another instance's jib. The culture clash would be harder to tolerate if content were mixed by default like that.
Maybe an easier way for end users to do it themselves? Like making a feed of multiple communities under one topic.
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with an instantce having just 2 to 3 communities all around similar theme
There are a few servers like this and people are aware of the centralization dangers of .world. Its hard work to keep a system like this from turning to shit.
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But that’s my point it wasn’t created organically one community at a time but a flood of clones with the same names at subreddits vs having there own identity
I would argue that people like familiarity like linux distros that looks familiar to windows has grown in popularity. Therefore using similar names to the one on reddit makes complete since to me and I don't see it would affect the growth. As for have different content, since lemmy is less mainstream you will see less popular topics. Many communities has a good balance between mainstream topic and less popular content yet fail to make people participating
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My experience goes against this position.
Between quite a few really active users and the ability to follow hashtags I have had a very active timeline almost since day 1 in Mastodon.
To put it in comparison, I find it hard to keep up with the Masto timeline while my 6-hour best sorting starts quickly showing a ton of doubles (wouldn't it be great if we could somehow make them go away? )
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Yeah imagine what lemmy would look like if reddit or Digg were not a thing and it from forums directly to lemmy. The network would be so even and the the instance would tell you kind of what communities are there just by the name.
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Personally I rarely read usernames on lemmy and reddit
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It's not really what you're looking for but I noticed recently that NodeBB (forum software) supports the fediverse. I actually found my lemmy user on it which I thought was super neat
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In Thunder you can at least disable showing crossposts which should remove a lot of duplicates.
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I like that
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You are also asuuming reddit was the default for a person coming to lemmy and that still doesn't explain the multiple communities created as clones becase the familiarity gets flipped on its head becase the person coming from reddit that would appeal to goes. It looks like reddit has the same name as my favorite subreddit. Why doesn't it work just like reddit? Then they say screw this I'm going back to reddit and thus you haven't dead communities hanging off of lemmy like a tumor. Hell the /c/name is not even shown in clients when you search it's the display name. So that makes it even more confusing.
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not disagreeing with your overall premise, but do clearly labeled, bot news aggregator communities need much interaction right now?
I read many of the article on bot feeds and will sometimes comment on ones that I think should get a few more eyeballs. others to the same and I appreciate their prodding as well. for my usecase lemmy in its current state has been absolutely wonderful, and I am enjoying watching it evolve.
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Me too. On Voyager you can add personal tags for people. It also displays how often you're upvoting or downvoting each user account. Very helpful for keeping track of who's who!
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You're such a light user that when I try to look at your post history, my client says you don't exist!
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Yeah I'm glad it works for you but at that point you are using lemmy like a RSS feed reader and at that point just use am RSS feed reader. But my point was trying to explain the lack of engagement that drives more content. Sometimes the post is secondary to comments in some cases.
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A while ago, I made a post saying things very similar to your first two sentences.
I definitely am far more active here than I was on Reddit. It's less intimidating here because of a smaller audience. Also, on Reddit, I'd often get negative responses if any at all. The crowd here is much friendlier; once or twice people have lashed out in response to something I said, but mostly people have been kind even if they apparently disagreed with my message.
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trying to do my part; always on the lookout for non {dot}world communities to comment in.
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I don't see a reason to believe that the majority of users on Lemmy are Reddit refugees, because every time Reddit makes a bad decision, we see a boost in new users.
Technology is one of the most duplicated community name, yet Lemmy.world technology community is one of the most popular, so I don't see community duplication as the biggest issue. The biggest problem with Lemmy and other fediverse app , was always that most people don't understand the appeal of decentralization, because most of them never experienced censorship, so it doesn't directly affect them. I think decentralized app creators should stop using decentralization as the main selling point, and focus instead about the fediverse being open source and about the diversity of clients you can use to navigate them. While also simplifying things like adding an pick a server for me, ability to merge communities with similar or same names, simplifying migration to other servers with the ability to migrate everything including posts.
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Can I have that in rods and furlongs?
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Now I'm imagining someone has me tagged as "data slut" from a thread last week about our jobs
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that's about 30 toothpaste length
