Agreed.
The politics here is also so hostile and violent, and one-sided.
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CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
The more niche communities really suffer I feel from the decentralized pattern. Tv shows, movies, video games, etc. you have everyone trying to be the “de-facto” instance and none of them really get traffic.
Really, Lemmy is just a US political platform with some weak notions of being anything else. And if it wants to survive, it needs more people, with more interesting topic. To many subs are just ghost towns.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
A big part of that is on the design side. We really need the ability to fork/ clone/ merge/ migrate communities across instances. Lemmy was designed to be an “entire” reddit replacement. Because of this, we end up with redundant communities with less activity. Migration of accounts and communities could effectively solve this issue.
Its possibly lemmy could have been designed such that communities of similar type could be aggregated into a single instance. For example, maybe you start a “snowboarding” community on .world, but when a sports focused instance pops up, you might want to migrate your community. A few instances build like this.
Skavau@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
Piefed has a community migration tool.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Yeah. Huge improvement and my other account is on piefed.social
Not having it from the beginning though, it helped create this issue in declining usership, which will kill the entire project if we don’t address it.
Skavau@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
Well, better late than never. Piefed can’t solve the limitations that Lemmy had.
hono4kami@piefed.social 6 days ago
I’ve been repeating this since 2024 to the point I sound like a broken record: It’s ironic how you can’t spell fediverse without diverse, yet it feels like the whole place feels so un-diverse.