Da Cap’nD.C. Grand Jury Orders Reddit to Turn Over Data on Anonymous ICE Critic
FijxuI really wonder what is preventing people using reddit from using Lemmy, Lemmy is just really good and I really like it, the only problem would be financial issues with big instances that have to store historical data so they can serve it, using more and more space, so that is why is better for everyone to use small instances instead of big ones ;3
Lemmy is relatively dead and horribly split-brained.
Basically, federations should have been a per topic thing, not entire instances.
I gave my input almost 3 years ago when I first joined, and I stand by it.
There should be a few general instances. These would be the big ones, where users would mostly clump. Any community would make sense here, but communities based on topics that have niche instances wouldn’t do well here, because everyone would just use the niche instances communities for those topics.
Then there would be smaller niche instances. Like I’m sure there’s SOMEONE who would join the star trek instance. Where every community is star trek themed. I don’t imagine that would be a significant percentage, but they would exist. Now, the communities would see a lot of traffic. I don’t doubt that if you consolidated all the star trek communities it would get a lot of people joining the communities. I just don’t think most people would feel the need to make that their home instance.
And star trek is just one example. You could have a sports instance. A movies instance. A tv instance. An art instance. An instance that’s just geographical locations instance. But most people would join the communities, not the instance.
That way, when people use the “local” tab, it’s a bit more diverse.
The one thing I miss about Reddit is the number and diversity of groups. You had many more niche topics and many people under them. What I don’t miss is how they were sponsored and dependent on car and oil and gas ads.
Even huge thriving communities on Reddit have zero representation here. The culture is also hyper specific on Lemmy. I find Lemmy to be generally more tolerant of my progressive, feminist, disabled person views but also if I want to talk about them there’s not that many places, but there are what feels like hundreds of options to talk about stuff I have absolutely no interest in like operating systems. I think it’s a diversity issue
I think we’re just going to have to get a lot more interested in operating systems.
I still think universities and academic societies should be hosting instances and funding them with dedicated endowments. It’d also provide a great way to request more money from people who feel a reciprocal obligation due to using the instance.
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