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I found a major communication problem with public perception of Lemmy. they seem to think a community is tied to a particular instance (www.reddit.com)
submitted 1 year ago by interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
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This is a big problem. It creates the illusion that /c/cats on one particular instance is the real /c/cats.

This is the root of re-centralization and it must be pulled out.

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[-] Cube6392@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

Why would you create a new account to browse the startrek dedicated instance instead of subscribing to the community that lives on their instance?

[-] ShittyKopper@lemmy.w.on-t.work 2 points 1 year ago

You create an account there probably because you are a star trek fan and want to show it off

Hell, they could've disabled account registration and just hosted the communities. Lemmy allows for that kind of flexibility

[-] Cube6392@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I just meant the other user seemed to think you had to create an account for every federated instance you wanted to interact with.

[-] WaDef7@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Also, this might just be personal experience, but so far I'm finding it far easier to browse a single community on no matter what general instance rather than going through a separate topic-focused instance.

[-] sudoreboot@mander.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

The idea is that you browse your feed of subscriptions, not that you literally go to an instance and browse their local feed.

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