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Are we using Lemmy correctly? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by _finger_@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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What I think could make Lemmy superior to Reddit is the ability to create themed-instances that are all linked together which feels like the entire point. I've noticed that a lot of instances are trying to be a catch-all Reddit replacement by imitating specific subs which is understandable given the circumstances but seems like it's not taking advantage of the full power that Lemmy could have.

Imagine for a moment that instances were more focus-based. Instead of having communities that are all mostly unrelated we had entire instances that are focused on one specific area of expertise or interest. Imagine a LOTR instance that had many sub-communities (in this case "communities" would be the wrong way to look at it, it would be more like categories) that dealt with different subjects in the LOTR universe: books, movies, lore, gaming, art, etc all in the same instance.

Imagine the types of instances that could be created with more granular categories within to better guide conversations: Baseball, Cars, Comics, Movies, Tech etc.

A tech instance could have dedicated communities for news, programming, dev, IT, Microsoft, Apple, iOS, linux. Or you could make it even more granular by having a dedicated instance for each of those because there's so many categories that could be applied to each.

What are your thoughts?

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[–] radarsat1@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is a good point and makes me wonder: is there any interest in running a personal instance that has no communities, just for the sake of being in control of your own identity? Would that even be an appropriate thing to do? And if so, how would you convince instances to federate with you if you have no content?

[–] mxh@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I think (I heard) federating is opt-out, so unless instances specifically block you, you should be able to subscribe to anything anywhere. I will probably host my own instance if this is the case!

[–] socialjusticewizard@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Being able to host a local instance seems like a really interesting approach to owning your own user data. Also a way to have a "blog" site like the relatively new profile posts on reddit.