Reddit is starting to suck more and more everyday so here I am. Some questions -
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I created my lemmy account at lemmy.ca, but most people i have seen have lemmy.world accounts. Am I missing out on anything by not having a lemmy.world account?
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Reddit has a offical subreddit for Reddit news, Are there any offical communities for Lemmy?
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You can’t post on some subreddits on Reddit if you do not have enough karma or if your account is not old enough. Is there anything like that on Lemmy?
Thank you!
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 3 months ago
Btw: It's good you signed up with a smaller instance. Ideally we want the users to spread across instances. So for example lemmy.world doesn't gain too much power (which it already has). So signing up on a different instance is a good thing for the Fediverse.
Mighty@lemmy.world 3 months ago
What’s the danger there? (Just curious)
Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
Same as reddit, every instance can choose to just start monetizing if they wish and even stop being part of the fediverse. If they get too big and decide to do it then it’ll be a blow to the content on all the fediverse. That’s why it’s better to spread out a bit more to avoid one big instance controlling the whole.
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 3 months ago
First of all we had big instances die. Like feddit.de and kbin.social That always damages a big part of the network. If things were distributed more evenly, it'd be a smaller chunk of the fediverse that vanishes in such a case.
Then, being way bigger than the others gives someone disproportionately bigger power. If you're not having any issue with that, you might as well join Reddit. And the first big Lemmy instance (lemmy.ml) arguably does that, too. They'll act against you once you say something negative about communism, China, ... and that's not okay. Now we have lemmy.world as the bigges instance and it's way better. But still I've also read people complain about their moderation practices.
If we have some dominating entities, they'll disproportionately shape the tone, atmosphere and behaviour on the whole network. We might or might not want that.
In the end I think what actually happens should reflect the vision and the capabilities of the software. The Fediverse is supposed to be an interconnected network of instances. If the technology works as intended (and the vision behind the Fediverse is correct) I expect that to manifest in the way it actually grows. If it favors one or two large instances, we either might have an issue with the technology/software and it's not able to truly achieve it because of some shortcomings. Or the idea behind all of it might not be more a theoretical concept than viable in the real world.
MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
If the LW admins decide to wrongfully ban someone, that person is banned from a lot of communities and from interacting with a lot of people. In a more equal network, each individual bad decision has a smaller effect on the whole
Asudox@lemmy.world 3 months ago
If LW admins really care about the fediverse, they probably should close their registrations for the time being, otherwise every newbie will start joining LW because it is the biggest instance out there.
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 3 months ago
On the flipside, that also scares people away. They want to take part and immediately hit a barrier. The place where everyone mingles is closed off. They have to learn why that is and how the Fediverse is supposed to work, find some instance overview list and make a choice. Be angry for a short while until they understand the concept and realize it's for the better... I think that'd be detrimental to the cause. I rather live with the issues that come with big instances than with a complicate onboarding process. But I think people already complained about onboarding on the Fediverse in general. I think we need to solve that issue first and then we can go ahead and also add some mechanism to steer people towards a more even distribution. But I don't see anyone working on any of that in Lemmy.