I appreciate the decentralized architecture and the privacy that comes with it, but it’s organization isn’t great.

I’m not sure if I understand why certain instances can choose not to federate with other instances. It just seems to limit the content that is accessible to me. I don’t want to have to switch between 4-5 Lemmy accounts that I switch just to curate what I to see. Its impractical.

I’m not happy with the changes on reddit and will most likely ditch entirely soon. Lately I’ve only been using it for tutorials. But at least I wasn’t closed off from viewing anything and everything I wanted without sifting through instances. I hope great things come for Lemmy, competitors are great, but in its current state it just seems doomed.

  • uthredii@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    It just seems to limit the content that is accessible to me.

    Some counterpoints to this:

    1. To my knowledge servers try to federate with a wide range of other servers. They will only ever block each other if the content is problematic.
    2. You can create your own server that federates with every instance you want. Chances are, someone had the same problem as you and is dooing this already.
    3. We could actually see more content than reddit eventually. Some community forums haven’t migrated to reddit because reddit would have final control/ownership of the community. This isn’t a problem with Lemmy. More communities like this one might migrate from isolated forums to Lemmy.