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  • you can’t bring those people over if they never see posts or content from the Fediverse

    It's still possible. Reddit didn't became popular because it federated with Digg.

    When Lemmy will become the reference for human provided answers, people will join. How fast it will happen depends on how bad the experience on Reddit becomes.

  • Mbin has that

  • Preference is key, I was just suggesting this in case people want to give a try to a Mastodon alternative

  • some instances had SSO for both Mastodon and Lemmy so you could do both ways of communication.

    So Mbin?

  • Yes, the list is a bit strange. I might create another one next week if I have some time

  • For example, if you’re a user who is ONLY interested in french cinema (or any specific topic) on Lemmy, and all of the related communities and other invested users are on a single instance, then for you, the experience is absolutely no different from any centralized platform - the french cinema instance admins have 100% control over your Lemmy experience.

    It's interesting, because it happened in the past, but more instance shutdown than power trip: lemmy.film went down, so the community moved to !movies@lemm.ee. Actually, I say that, but you are well aware ha ha

    There is probably a balance between how much a community needs to be centralized for it to be livable, and how much decentralization we want to keep admins/mods from power tripping.

    I'm a bit jealous of the Star Trek community, seems like they are so many that they can afford to create new communities every few months.

  • Hello, thank you for your comment!

    I agree with most of it, except the following.

    In other words, even if you’re super interested in french cinema, there is no need to centralize all users interested in this topic on a single french cinema instance.

    The local feed is still important for people to discover new communities. There is a reason most of the French speakers on Lemmy are on Jlai.lu, it's because it allows them to find other French speaking communities more easily. I say this for French, but https://literature.cafe is the same for books, and https://programming.dev for programming.

    Otherwise, the local feed is wasted, and with the issues we currently have with discoverability of communities, it definitely helps.

  • Happy to be part of that very select subgroup

  • The issue is not about the implementation, but the filter: which criteria do you use to select instances that are eligible for the pool of instances? I'm genuinely asking because I think it takes some time to have a look on instances for people to make the best choice.

  • Seems strange. I registered an alt not so long ago and I remember being able to view all the languages from the get go.

    Maybe that's an instance-dependent thing.

    If the language issue wasn’t there it wouldn’t honestly be much different from reddit.

    It's interesting because a lot of non-English speaking communities complain about users downvoting their content because they don't understand it, so it seems like they have the exact opposite issues that you do.

    https://sh.itjust.works/post/16202527

  • Hello,

    What is the current experience for a new account? I throught all languages were visible by default, and that users could opt out if they wanted?

  • To be fair, for most people it is better to just use a another instance. Instance maintenance can take quite some time

  • Agree. I moved to an instance without downvotes for this reason.

  • Suscriptions and block liste are transferred in two clicks via the settings. For jour history just mention the other account in jour bio.

  • Reddit IPO thing?

    Planned for this week

  • Agree, but easier said than done

  • Lemmy instances. The graph shows how long it takes for content to go from one instance to another, which is a few minutes at most