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?

  • fluffman86
    4·
    1 year ago

    I love how y’all have just invented what we used to refer to as “a forum” 😂

    Before reddit, Badger and Blade was a forum dedicated to traditional wet shaving, with sub forums for double edged razors, single edge razors, old school straight razors, badger hair brushes, different shaving soaps, and some other nice manly things like knives or fountain pens or leather goods or what have you.

    If people didn’t like B&B, there was also The Shave Den, a similar forum with different mods and different rules and some similar sub forums.

    For tech you could (and still can) join linustechtips.com or there were probably others for Chris Parillo or TWiT or Cali Lewis or whatever.

    • Da_Boom@iusearchlinux.fyi
      2·
      1 year ago

      Yes we’ve essentially done that, with the major addition that lemmys “forums” are all interconnected, and you can subscribe to them. You can browse one with the account of another.

      You could say Reddit was the same - a set of forums that you “subscribe” to,

      So really the order is forum > Reddit(+subscriptions +voting) > Lemmy (+federation/interconnection)