Howzit

I know nothing about programming, so I’m kind of hoping someone involved can take this further.

Edit: to add, I also only discovered Lemmy a few days ago, so my grasp on the whole process is tenuous at best.

Well yes and no. I think the point is to avoid 500 arbitrary half dead Cat communities, or to help users find there niche for their town or interest so you aren’t left with multiple dead communities reposting questions all over the place hoping to find the community with the answer by sheer dunb luck while also thinking that Lemmy is dead.

Finding out that the official photography sub lives on glasgow.xyz is a big ask. So maybe it would be a good start to keep things fractured but allow an easy way to group them into a feed like the way multis work. Looking at my subscribed list is a horror show right now and I shudder to think of the infighting when three growing communities butt heads trying to spam each other’s users to grow there own. If I can organise my coms into categories and folders that would be a start. Maybe creating feeds by tag? And subscribing to tags?

Maybe using tags? A community can tag itself in areas it wants to both be included in and excluded from. And allow users to surf tag feeds to comment and upvote on, also allow us to organise our communities within groups in our own way?

Maybe treat it more like tags, and if a community within a tag is spamming a user can still hide that community independently.

Sheesh! I wasn’t holding my breath then. And I’m not holding it now. I played Oblivion in school. Skyrim right after college.

Now my hair is gray and il be 40 in a couple years.

Maybe if all Lemmy content comes with a Lemmy tag as well it could be easier to filter out?

Think of an email address. Accessing a community is like accessing an email address (that’s why communities have handles @ a server.

So unlike Reddit where you could have r/memes in the Fediverse you can have memes@lemmy.world or memes@lemmy.ml each host can host a bunch of communities and a bunch of users and we all connect to one another in a similar way that email works.

The plus side of this is that no single company has all the power like a walled garden, rather the whole system functions in a decentralised manner. It is also run open source by a community of developers. So while the whole system works in a very similar way to Reddit, you cant just search for the official memes community, rather you can subscribe to many, some may be large and some may be small and niche. Hopefully the downsides of this will get ironed out, organising communities into super communities or sorting by tag or something, but on the bright side, being open source and decentralised, development of Lemmy will likely proceed at a rapid pace and soon catch up and overtake corporate sites in useability, as they increasingly look to stifle useability and freedom for profit.

Almost Sunny

Welcome to the Wild West fellow Lemming.