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?

    • Catsrules@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Linkes are a big issues at the moment, there are multiple post about it on the Lemmy Github so I am sure the developers are working on it. Although I don’t know if they can solve the issue 100%

      The problem is every instance has a different link to the same post and you need the link that is from your instance otherwise your account won’t be recognized.

      For example here is the same post on 4 different instances.

      https://lemmy.wtf/post/1123 https://beehaw.org/post/539545 https://lemmy.world/post/108806 https://lemmy.ml/post/1247017

      In your case you would want to lemmy.ml link as your account in on the lemmy.ml server.

      The only way I know of to actually find these links is to manually track it down using your own instance. From your instance go to the community directly in this case search for !guildwars2@lemmy.wtf and then look for the post manually.

      Also to add insult to injury It would appears the comments aren’t transferring over from that community to lemmy.ml At least as of my writing.

      Lemmy.ml migrated to a new server today and there have been issues with the migration. My guess the comments and your login issues are probably become of this.

      As we are in kind of the early days of Lemmy I would recommend creating a backup account on a different instances, this way if one instance is having issues you can just use the other account on a difference instance and not have to wait around until the server gets back up.