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    Lemmy will dethrone reddit once you are able to google a question and the Lemmy link is at the top as opposed to reddit

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      Reddit also had the ability to just type in my address bar “/r/obscurefandom” and be taken directly to the subreddit for it. Lemmy doesn’t have those smaller subs yet and you have to hunt for the right instance if it does.

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        Even TV shows that have been off air for a decade often have a thriving community. Merlin, the BBC show, has several posts per day. Similarly with Smallville. Lemmy’s communities are smaller and tend to be broken up across instances.

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          I feel like there needs to be instance aggregation for Lemmy to really work in the long run (and really this is probably true of the fediverse in general). Having to add communities across multiple instances, and not being able to browse them in a centralized way, really detracts from the experience. On Reddit, I subbed to the stuff I wanted and just lived off that feed. With Lemmy, I feel like I have to stay in unfiltered view to get anything of interest–the fragmented niche communities are just too limiting.

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            Yes, Lemmy is Reddit with extra steps as long as you can’t click this /c/books And see, by default, every books community , on every server at once in a single place.

            The Redditors who made it here, saw this and realized the fediverse promise, was just bait.

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            Add in people posting the same thing across the various “same community” on all the various instances for extra silliness.

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          Reddit will have active subs for specific board games. The general board games magazine on Lemmy has 1 post a month.

          So ya, if I want to read comments on the latest episode of Loki to see what things people picked up on that I missed Reddit is currently the only place to find that.

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          This illustrate the fatal flaw with Lemmy.

          The fediverse is made pointless because now a community only exists on one server at a time, instead of on every server.

          It is Reddit, with extra steps

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      Whelp, better get to asking questions… Someone ask me a question to an answer someone may want to search for

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      Even then, Reddit has accumulated so much technical advice over the years, I hope I can still find archived posts this way, if ever it truly does crash and burn.

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        What’s stopping someone from just copying the reddit history and building that knowledge base as under the hood of Lemmy?

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      Which is never going to happen because you can’t click this /c/books

      And fine an agglomeration of all /c/books on all lemmy servers Ina single location.

      This cripples any network effect and any benefice of decentralization and federation

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        Bro, it’s so fucking frustrating that I need to be subbed to 5 different Android communities just to get my news.

        I can’t sub to just one because I miss news if I do.

        My only hope is that Boost brings multi-reddit support to Lemmy, so I can just click on “Android” and get the news from all 5 Android communities.

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          “multi Reddit” like feature do not fix the problem.

          First, like on Reddit, less than 5% of users will use it as a non default feature which needs to be configured.

          Second, even of those people who use the feature, they will have different sets of differently configured “multireddit”.

          The end result is a fragmented audience that has no shared experience and never aglomerates to critical mass.

          If you have 1725 /c/books communities, that does not make one cohesive books community. These people have nothing in common.

          Practical end result, one books community on one Lemmy instance, is “the one big community” and almost every other gets 1 post per year on average, which is never seen by anyone.

          For every big community, every once in a while, the moderation dictators sell out or otherwise piss off the community enough that it fragments. That works as well as the current transition from Reddit to Lemmy.

          Each schism doesn’t create a new, better community, it creates a smaller, less active community at the expense of the larger one.

          There needs to be a single point of agglomeration, which works by default for any community name.

          And moderation needs to be something dive by every user and moderation needs to be a filter that you subscribe to.

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      And Linux will dethrone windows.

      I wish they were true but reality is that people will accept just about any and all abuse and stay with the crap despite sometimes getting angry about it.

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      Since lemmy instance are hit and miss. Some popular ones are already talking about shutting down or have shut down. I highly doubt lemmy will get there.