I think so, especially as users can’t have multiple subscription lists. The post sorting algorithms use activity as a key metric, so lots of fragmented communities will get buried under posts from (for example) memes@lemmysworld.
I guess you and I must interact with the fediverse in completely different ways. I tend to sort by all > new when I just want to browse random content (and I’m ok with that being meme-heavy).
When I want to communicate with a specific community, I will visit the individual community itself. For instance (ha!), I like that there’s a Firefox@lemmy.ml and a Firefox@fedia.io that have different users and different content.
I also feel like it’s time to abandon the idea of one centralized “official” community for things. That has never ended well.
That’s why I don’t understand things like the former r/gamingcirclejerk mod being upset that someone created a gamingcirclejerk@lemmy.world. Like just – create your own?
I don’t use All. It’s completely devoid of interesting things for me. I tend to use Top Day Subscribed so I’m looking for stories that have some traction and a conversation going on. Doing that with a large number of subscriptions means the most popular topics overwhelm the less popular topics. All I’ll see is Memes, but never my sub about scuba diving. If the scuba diving community is split across 7 channels, but memes is just one big channel, that just gets worse.
I was a big user of multireddits. That allowed me to group subs together for more niche topics, and see what was top in that area. I think Lemmy isn’t going to cultivate smaller channels without having a way to get them appear regularly to users.
I think so, especially as users can’t have multiple subscription lists. The post sorting algorithms use activity as a key metric, so lots of fragmented communities will get buried under posts from (for example) memes@lemmysworld.
I guess you and I must interact with the fediverse in completely different ways. I tend to sort by all > new when I just want to browse random content (and I’m ok with that being meme-heavy).
When I want to communicate with a specific community, I will visit the individual community itself. For instance (ha!), I like that there’s a Firefox@lemmy.ml and a Firefox@fedia.io that have different users and different content.
I also feel like it’s time to abandon the idea of one centralized “official” community for things. That has never ended well.
That’s why I don’t understand things like the former r/gamingcirclejerk mod being upset that someone created a gamingcirclejerk@lemmy.world. Like just – create your own?
I don’t use All. It’s completely devoid of interesting things for me. I tend to use Top Day Subscribed so I’m looking for stories that have some traction and a conversation going on. Doing that with a large number of subscriptions means the most popular topics overwhelm the less popular topics. All I’ll see is Memes, but never my sub about scuba diving. If the scuba diving community is split across 7 channels, but memes is just one big channel, that just gets worse.
I was a big user of multireddits. That allowed me to group subs together for more niche topics, and see what was top in that area. I think Lemmy isn’t going to cultivate smaller channels without having a way to get them appear regularly to users.
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