Anyone well known who wants to speak out about what’s been happening on reddit? Louis Rossmann? Apollo dev? John Oliver (one can dream)… or maybe former Reddit mods who were kicked out?

Anyone who has a story and who understands they’d have a massive impact by giving an exclusive AMA on a Lemmy or Kbin instance.

This could be announced a few days in advance to make sure all remote instances follow the AMA community.

  • MrGeekman@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I think it would be best to hold off until the Lemmy developers push out an update which solves the issue of having separate communities for the same topic on multiple instances. For example, multi-community feeds or merging instances.

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      1 year ago

      Is this now widely acknowledged as a problem? I don’t see a problem with that kind of fragmentation tbh. Especially since there was fragmentation of that kind in reddit too Maybe Lemmy/kbin just need a reliable way to search across instances.

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        1 year ago

        If I was mostly staying on the home page, looking at the aggregate feed, I wouldn’t care. But since I tend to browse by community, I see it as a big problem actually.

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        Maybe I’m misunderstanding, but I definitely don’t think it’s a problem. If we start merging similar communities and centralising everything… Doesn’t that just end up defeating the whole point of the fediverse and recreating Reddit instead?

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          If I understand correctly, the issue is /c/sysadmin is different from /m/sysadmin (just example subs), creating overlap communities for the same thing. So if someone’s doing an AMA they might be using /c/AMA, but other users would be trying to find it in /m/AMA and not understand why it’s missing.

          My opinion is, if we want Lemmy to take off and be a replacement for Reddit, it needs to be user friendly for the non-tech savvy users as well without having to explain how it works in a 3 page essay. Consolidating those communities across instances would help with that a lot.

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            I get that, and it does totally make sense – the main issue I have is viewing this as a strict “replacement” for Reddit. I believe we should be more comfortable with moving and “replacing” Reddit with something more like an alternative than a direct copy; Reddit fell apart for a lot of reasons, but we can at least point at one thing to change; centralisation.

            I think we shouldn’t replace like for like, but move on and find new things; whether that’s Lemmy, or other alternatives. Some people prefer centralised forums, some people prefer more niche communities – for me, personally, I like more niche communities – but I think there’s a way for us all to be happy without sacrificing the fediverse ideals.