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  • I mean… What? That’s kind of exactly what’s happening in lemmy communities

    Indeed I can understand this one. I’m really liking Lemmy but discoverability is pretty bad, add the fact the ranking is shit and pretty useless in suggesting interesting content and you will understand his point.

    Reddit has both much more content and not only a better ranking system but also a functioning personalized algorithm, if you want to use it.

    To this day, all of the non mainstream Lemmy communities I’m following it’s because I’ve used to follow the subreddit and it migrated here.


  • But I think there’s a big difference here

    I tried to use mastodon but I feel that microblogging inherently require some centralization, it’s impossibile to find people to follow and the feed is always a mess with bunch of stuff that doesn’t interest me.

    On the contrary I’m using Lemmy since a while and it works much better for content discovery, communities act as a"human algorithm" the same way they work on Reddit and it help much with the federation approach.

    What I arrived to realize is that some form of social media are more adaptable to the fediverse.

    For example, I hardly see any decentralized version of TikTok


  • Centralized services are usually more efficient than decentralized but that’s not the primary goal of the fediverse

    My main concern with this is, if only a handful of centralized social network reached long term stability, and most of them are unprofitable, how can Lemmy (or any other foss fediverse project) completely hold itself on 2 unpaid developers and immense unpaid work from volunteers in the long run.

    Because ok, Lemmy.world is looking for experienced sysadmin and that post already had a little backslash, but this isn’t sustainable long term, it’s impossibile to keep scaling like that.

    And I feel that’s one of the biggest reasons holding back the fediverse



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    1 year ago

    Ok but the question that arise is:" if the community is duplicated on every server that access it, isn’t it a little bit of a waste of computational power and disk space ?"

    Expecially considering now Lemmy is pretty small, but in the future you could hopefully have a much larger audience





  • That’s is one of major Lemmy flaw IMHO

    They should have separated identification and content. Make a unified id system and then let people host their own communities on the federated level.

    This would have been expecially important as you can’t really move your account among instances, and would have make the registration process also much easier for normal users who just want to use the platform