Perhaps I’ve misunderstood how Lemmy works, but from what I can tell Lemmy is resulting in fragmentation between communities. If I’ve got this wrong, or browsing Lemmy wrong, please correct me!
I’ll try and explain this with an example comparison to Reddit.
As a reddit user I can go to /r/technology and see all posts from any user to the technology subreddit. I can interact with any posts and communicate with anyone on that subreddit.
In Lemmy, I understand that I can browse posts from other instances from Beehaw, for example I could check out /c/[email protected], /c/[email protected], or many of the other technology communities from other instances, but I can’t just open up /c/technology in Beehaw and have a single view across the technology community. There could be posts I’m interested in on the technology@slrpnk instance but I wouldn’t know about it unless I specifically look at it, which adds up to a horrible experience of trying to see the latest tech news and conversation.
This adds up to a huge fragmentation across what was previously a single community.
Have I got this completely wrong?
Do you think this will change over time where one community on a specific instance will gain the market share and all others will evaporate away? And if it does, doesn’t that just place us back in the reddit situation?
EDIT: commented a reply here: https://beehaw.org/comment/288898. Thanks for the discussion helping me understand what this is (and isnt!)
@pixelpusher220 Hmm, I haven’t ran into anybody using readit.buzz yet, but I’m willing to try to help you out! The first thing I would do is make sure that if there is an option for federation to turn it on. Maybe ask within the readit.buzz community how to do this. This is early days for a lot of the tools and instances springing up, so there are still kinks being worked out possibly as well there.
I know I can reference and link to my sub by referencing it as @DwarfFortress
@DwarfFortress@kbin.socialMaybe clicking on that above within readit.buzz will direct you to be able to subscribe?
In a pinch if you wanted to view the magazine directly, it is at https://kbin.social/m/DwarfFortress
ETA: The magazine names are usually case sensitive
Got it. the Magazine page search doesn’t find it but your full @DwarfFortress in the regular search does find it! Thank you!
@pixelpusher220 Awesome, glad I could help!
Much appreciated. My Federation setting is On but lists no instances so seemingly I’d guess that’s a reasonable guess at the problem. Appreciate the heads up on case sensitivity. I guess readit.buzz is fairly small, which is ironic b/c it’s run by @supernovae of the bigger Universeodon.com Masto site haha