just so this doesn’t overwhelm our front page too much, i think now’s a good time to start consolidating discussions. existing threads will be kept up, but unless a big update comes let’s try to keep what’s happening in this thread instead of across 10.

developments to this point:

The Verge is on it as usual, also–here’s their latest coverage (h/t @dirtmayor@beehaw.org):

other media coverage:

  • setsneedtofeed@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I don’t think of that as a negative. It’s a different structure than Reddit.

    Each instance would be a community in the cultural sense. All of the Lemmy communities within that instance would be a place for primarily the same instance users to gather. Each instance having its own cultural identity. Decentralized.

    • Pigeon@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I agree. On reddit, there are a bazillion different “gaming” subreddits that are only named different because that’s the only way to have different communities around the same topic: r/gaming, r/games, r/truegaming, r/patientgamers, r/girlgamers, r/transgamers, r/gaymers, and so on.

      Each of those communities has a different feel and different moderation and different priorities, and no way no how would I want r/gaming posts mixed in if I’m trying to browse r/transgamers, for example.

      Similarly, I’m mostly sticking to Lemmy instances that disable the downvote button, because it makes for friendly places I think, and lowers the barrier to posting for socially anxious users.

      I like the idea of there being a way for users, or for similar groups of instances that agree to it (like if beehaw and an instance with similar rules/community feel wanted to collaborate a bit), to set up a multi-lemmy ‘all’ community thing that shows posts across similar communities, but it should still be optional.