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?

  • @[email protected]
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    01 year ago

    Only if we get the ability to block instances as users.

    There are quite a lot of posts on my Hot page in languages I don’t speak. It’d be nice to be able to block instances that mostly communicate in languages I don’t speak anyways.

    • narF
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      11 year ago

      You can select which languages you want to see in your Lemmy settings. Of course, this currently require people to tag their post with the correct language.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        Which is not happening right now. I ha r three languages selected, I still get tons of other languages in my feed.

        • narF
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          11 year ago

          I think it’s because most people don’t select a language. Hopefully one day Lemmy will automatically detect the language, or let us select a default one :)