I have a question about communities. Are communities server-specific, for example, is the “Gaming” community on lemmy.ml different from the one on, say, beehaw.org and will I need to join both?

  • yboutros@infosec.pubEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Hmm yea I don’t like it much either, however, I remember /r/technology got progressively worse and the alternative was just a shittier subreddit with a slightly different name.

    Unison would be nice, but it’s not so different from reddit come to think of it

    • NeuromancerEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      I’m not sure anything is different here in that respect. I’m still learning my way around, but are communities not still autocratic fiefdoms controlled entirely by some combination of the server admins and moderators? It will just be a shittier community with the same name.

      • yboutros@infosec.pubEnglish
        7·
        2 years ago

        Hmm true that is a concern

        I’m just speculating here, but I remember way back when reddit was just a bunch of shitty html css and blue links. People would joke it would weed some times of people out

        Maybe the complicated nature of federated web apps will drive away a similar crowd

        • NeuromancerEnglish
          4·
          2 years ago

          That’s actually a really good point. There’s an optimum number of users that’s obviously orders of magnitude higher than where Lemmy is at right now, but it’s probably an order of magnitude lower than reddit’s current position. If reddit’s changes could drive the most technologically literate 10-20% of reddit’s user base over here, that might be a very good thing indeed.