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  • My claim is not that Lemmy should attract every single person. However, it does need to attract many many people. Here is why:

    I think we all want to open a post about astronomy and read “Astronomer here. Here is what this post is saying:”. Or read a post about nutrition and have someone with actual nutrition knowledge talk about the topic at hand. Perhaps even the author of the paper?

    Do you want a random guy who installed arch-linux commentating (probably a shitty meme) on a highly specialized topic about math? Or do you want Terence Tao leaving his thoughts? I want the later. In order to have that, Lemmy needs to be welcoming to everyone and not just to people who know how to install Arch.

    I use arch btw.



  • I think there are advances and disadvantages to this. Decentralization is definitely an advantage, however, having the same community split between many instances splits the community and the conversations and makes finding and interacting with the community much harder. This wouldn’t be much of a problem on a very big userbase (such as reddit), but on a smaller userbase (such as lemmy), it does constitute a problem in my view.

    Having said that, there are probably some UI/UX tricks that could be done to improve this sort of thing. For example, when subscribing to a “privacy” community, there could be a suggestions box/pop-up/whatever showing other privacy communities. Perhaps a graph of communities.