Say what you will about reddit, at least an established subreddit was the place to gather on the topic, ie r/technology etc.
With Lemmy, doesn’t it follow that similar communities on different instances will simply dilute the userbase, for example !technology@lemmy.ml and !technology@beehaw.org. How do we best use lemmy as a (small c) community when a topic can be split amongst many (large C) Communities?
This is an earnest question, in no way am I suggesting lemmy is inferior to reddit. I’m quite enjoying myself here.
Let them be. There are 20 different memes subreddits as well the best one will win.
No, the one on Lemmy.ml will win, since that’s the first place new users are going.
Thats not necessarily true. Behaw is also very big, feddit de as well. And there is no “winning” you can just have multiple…
I read strange stuff about beehaw, the admin going primadonna or somethin’…
I noped out of Beehaw when I read this. Those bolded parts(and only the bolded parts) raised some alarm bells in my brain.
The lack of clear rules just sounds ripe for power tripping.
Do note that I am NOT objecting to the need to create a bigotry-free zone. It’s important that Lemmy avoids getting infected by racism and hate, lest it end up like Voat. It’s just those bolded parts that give me bad vibes about the place.
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I’m not crazy about the idea that some instances can disable downvotes.
It only affects communities on their instance.
General rule of any social media: your server, your rules.