I'll toggle from local to all if things are a bit slow, but I generally regret it. The chatter "over there" was that Beehaw is the place to go, and it just happens to run on Lemmy software.
this post was submitted on 15 Jun 2023
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Because people generally want a user experience similar to Reddit
The power Reddit has over these users is they believe that to be what they want. But have you ever run into a longtime Redditor who says it's perfect the way it is? Not just recently, either.
Been a Reddit user for well over a decade... If you asked me a decade ago I would have said it was near perfect... Now? Fuck no, it's terrible. They've jumped off the rooftop long ago... just been waiting for the splat and the alternative. I found the alternative... Just waiting for the splat since that will be fun to watch.
Totally disagree, the more tech savvy can spin up their own single user instances if they want, be fully in control of their own content and participate just like anyone on any large instance bar being defederated. All for basically free
Reddit isn't totally free of this problem (feature) either--You can have multiple subreddits dedicated to the same topic.
IMO while the federated communities might feel fragmented if you are used to reddit, it's the main benefit of using Lemmy and something that should be embraced. Concentrating content into only a few instances defeats the point of federation.
Take the current issue as an example: A gigantic community defederated from another gigantic community leading to a comparatively large wall between the content of those communities. Had they been smaller, the impact of this issue would therefore also be smaller. This affects other communities which get content from beehaw as well, since there's now less interaction between a large portion of the fediverse user base.
It's only natural that large communities will bubble to the top however, and there probably isn't a good answer to how to 'balance out' those communities, or if that's even beneficial at all.
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