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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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[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I am a lemmy.ml user and don't think it is being or trying to be reddit. Maybe some of the users but that isn't the instance in awhole. Your idea sounds nice until I learn I have to signup to all thesee diffrent instances, or am I missing something?

[–] atypicaloddity@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

You don't have to sign up on multiple sites, you just subscribe to specific channels you care about from the site you signed up for. For instance, signing up to lemmy.ml's Politics, Lemmy.world's Tech, and fedia.io's Cats.

For instance, here's a link to !startrek@startrek.website that you can interact with and subscribe to from your Lemmy.ml account: https://lemmy.ml/c/startrek@startrek.website

[–] Schooner@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

You don't have to sign up to different instances. You can just join the sublemms and it will show up on your feed.

It's like having an email and signing up to different newsletters through other sites.