What I think could make Lemmy superior to Reddit is the ability to create themed-instances that are all linked together which feels like the entire point. I’ve noticed that a lot of instances are trying to be a catch-all Reddit replacement by imitating specific subs which is understandable given the circumstances but seems like it’s not taking advantage of the full power that Lemmy could have.
Imagine for a moment that instances were more focus-based. Instead of having communities that are all mostly unrelated we had entire instances that are focused on one specific area of expertise or interest. Imagine a LOTR instance that had many sub-communities (in this case “communities” would be the wrong way to look at it, it would be more like categories) that dealt with different subjects in the LOTR universe: books, movies, lore, gaming, art, etc all in the same instance.
Imagine the types of instances that could be created with more granular categories within to better guide conversations: Baseball, Cars, Comics, Movies, Tech etc.
A tech instance could have dedicated communities for news, programming, dev, IT, Microsoft, Apple, iOS, linux. Or you could make it even more granular by having a dedicated instance for each of those because there’s so many categories that could be applied to each.
What are your thoughts?
If I simply link to a cool community I found, like https://beehaw.org/c/programming, you can’t follow that link conveniently if you’re from another instance.
Then use the fediverse version: programming@beehaw.org
That’s the string you need to put in the search and go through there. Clunky and inconvenient.
The funny part is that the search also returns posts where that link works, but don’t know what the issue here is. Regardless, copy+pasteing a universal link should be an easy thing to do and not require manual typing.
Edit: Okay, so to do those links you have to type it out like you would a reddit link:
[!programming@lemmy.ml](/c/programming@lemmy.ml)
which results in !programming@lemmy.ml
So it’s actually the /c/programming@Lemmy.ml link that make it works like federation, so the ‘!’ has no purpose? It’s weird, I imagined it like @ and # at other platforms, and actually at lemmy’s GitHub page readme you can see they mention the tagging just like that, like it works the same as other platforms. What are we missing here hahaha
