I wanted to get a pulse check on how new members are finding the general experience/website. Is it more confusing than Reddit or are you finding the instance system a better way of doing things as it can give you more freedom of where you choose to create an account?
I’m a new user myself but have found the experience to remind me of Reddit back in the day, lol. It’s definitely giving me old-school yet modern vibes and it’s great to see something that isn’t Reddit growing in popularity!
The user fragmentation is going to make it hard for communities to reach critical mass.
Explain Like I’m Five is a subreddit where niche experts come out of the woodwork to make the sub phenomenal. However, that doesn’t work if those users are split over 100 different subs named the same thing on different servers.
I think the subs/communities need to automatically mirror or aggregate, but I’m not sure if that’s practical with this platform topology.
I’m pretty sure that over time, some of them will naturally take off and attract more users than others.
This issue should be solved by the client apps and websites. (Third party or not) essentially the client should be able to search for all instances of a community and aggregate them together - a bit like a multireddit, except it’s intelligently done with communities of the same name in different known instances Then you set which community from this group you want to post to by default (or it decides based on instance or popularity, or some other metric)