But then what’s the point of separating them into instances in the first place?

Thanks!

Right now I have an account in beehaw, lemm.ee and vlemmy.net. I know it’s overkill, but it was mostly because I still don’t understand how things like NSFW and no downvotes work when you’re in communities from other instances. I’ll probably end up with just one when I figure it out tho

Well, not really, I am very new to this. But that’s another issue, I see no good way to find communities. You can go to that site and search for them, or hope they come up on your instance’s search, but I see no way to find new communities you don’t already know of. That also makes it so you don’t know if the one you found is necessarily the one, although that could be fixed when more people come here and things develop more

I mean yeah, they just really have to make a seamless way to see other instance’s communities. From what I understand they have to be searched manually, at least for the first time, or use a separate site to search for them. And in Reddit a huge way to find new subs was with crossposts (which idk if they exist here) and recommendations you got on your feed (which many people hated, even if I think they were useful, if not we’ll implemented) so it’s not as simple

I wonder, how good is Mastodon and Kbin? I know nothing about Kbin, and with Mastodon I worry that, being so similar to Twitter, it may end up with the same shortcomings

It is sad to lose communities, though it was already happening slowly with bots showing up more and more.

But how can we ensure bots don’t become a problem here? If anything, restricting the API should help with that issue, although afaik many of those still fall on the free tier.

Anyway, here’s hoping you’re right and it does get better

It isn’t unique to it, but it makes it waaay worse. And in Reddit it was mostly a problem of originally different subreddits eventually losing it’s original meaning and getting diluted into just “funny stuff” or “interesting stuff”

And yes, I know they’re counting on us thinking that way, and I do feel conflicted about that. But, for better or worse, Reddit is an important part of many people’s lives, and an invaluable resource of information. Losing that would be a big loss for many people, and it will take a long while for Lemmy to catch up, if it ever does.

If this protest goes for long enough though, maybe they’ll concede. That’s the plan anyway. The options aren’t only “return in two days” and “never return”, there has to be a middle ground that will make them listen to us.

What worries me is how much of it is the initial hiccups of its early stages, and how much if it is a fundamental flaw with this paradigm