This is happening all over reddit.
Mods are posting all over the place saying "I have to bend over for the admins because if I don't they'll find someone else who will".
You do you but honestly I find this a bit weird. As an unpaid volunteer you don't have to do anything. Just resign. Reddit's not about to die but it's best days are in the past. I wouldn't want to be a part of the future of reddit.
Redditors in general just aren't that into lemmy. Most redditors come here expecting to find a 1 for 1 replacement pre-warmed with millions of users and brimming with reddit culture.
Not having an algorithm to tell people what they want to see is a bigger impediment to attracting users than most people realise.
Additionally, I think mods are reluctant to direct users to any other community as they will give up lordship of their own fiefdom. Sorry, I acknowledge that I have probably an unfairly dim view of mods. I'm sure some are amazing, but certainly many are self-obsessed power trippers. They act in their own interests to preserve control rather than acting in the interest of the community.
Usernames are only universal in the same way an email address is. Any instance can have an @citizenpremier but only you can be @citizenpremier@lemmy.ml.
I don't mean to be a douche about it but you're still thinking about it in a very corporate-social kind of way. For something to be universal it requires a central point of control, which doesn't exist in the fediverse.
The biggest problem I see is fragmentation, people are creating the same community in different instaces, /c/Piracy for example.
I agree, to an extent. You're right in that if you were part of the vibrant community of /r/piracy then it's miserable to see it shatter here on lemmy. That said, this only applies if you're expecting lemmy to be a 1 for 1 reddit replacement. For this type of community to remain cohesive, /r/piracy would have had to spin up their own instance and in /r/piracy direct everyone to lemmy.piracyinstance.whatever.
You can't really "fix" this in a central way because even if you did, it would be trivial to create an instance that would allow duplicate community names. Also, I can see a lot of use cases for lemmy which do not intend to be federated.
That said, it's not necessarily as big a problem as it appears, if you just accept that this is how the fediverse works. There's no single source of control, so of course people can create 147 different /c/piracy communities if they wish to. Once you accept that, then it's not really that difficult to subscribe to all the /c/piracy communities you can find.
The problem itself could be diminished by a few new features which I feel certain will emerge in the future:
Everyone says that the loss of these 3rd party app users will destroy them, but I disagree. I don't think that the quality of experience is as closely linked to profitability as most people think. Ad-Clicking viewers of cat gifs are blissfully unaware of the current fiasco.
It's not a binary decision, they're not mutually exclusive.
It's like arguing about browsers. I use Firefox and I use Chrome every day.
I've been using mastodon & reddit everyday, but while I've had a lemmy account for a long while but until now the community hasn't been well aligned with my interest.
If just a third of the current active users stick around I can see it becoming part of my daily scrolling.
That's the suggestion.
Problem is there doesn't seem to be much interest from anyone with experience hosting something for thousands of users.
Yeah, obviously it would be difficult to keep everything in sync without a single source of truth.
As it is now, the server you're connected to is doing all the work. I think the existing model can be modified to reduce the current points of confusion.
Like not being able to see communities on other servers in search is a problem.
I don't really understand. I'm not talking about creating a "foss" subreddit / sublemmy / community.
Anything self hosted is by it's very nature free open source software (foss). This also applies to homeserver & homelab. Admittedly datahoarder is to a lesser extent but there's still a very large cross over.
Therefore foss seemed like a good umbrella term, as a way to group the majority of these communities. So you create a foss instance which would be the ideal place to host selfhosted, homeserver, homelab, and datahorder subreddits / sublemmys / communities.
If I was looking at a list of instances, and saw a FOSS one, that's where I'd expect to find these communities.
That said, I'm open to being convinced that there's a better way to categorise these things ? What would you use as the umbrella term?
This.
Importing threads into this sub doesn't feel like the right move to me.
You can still search reddit for solutions.
I don't see any benefit to new users seeing content here which was originally from reddit.
I agree. If lemmy continues to grow, inevitably some servers will be shit, but I imagine there will be other non-federated or less-federated instances. beehaw has already started down that path.
Trolls are generally looking for maximum carnage, so I imagine there's less incentive / reward posting somewhere like lemmy.