Compared to what? A flat rate?

How much power are you consuming in the closet?

“Two kilos of the low sodium please.”

I lean to the right in my political views yet I do not exhibit any of the behaviors that you are subscribing to an entire population. Consider being more exact with your words lest you alienate people with vitriol.

Where were they at when you saw them? Were they with anyone? Did they look happy?

This is my favorite post.

Your experience may vary, but I found Reddit to have extremely helpful advice on a whole host of topics. Investing, home automation, and car repair/restoration just to name a few that I frequent.

It’s the ability to lose a question where thousands or hundreds of thousands of people will see and interact with your post. The answers aren’t always perfect, but you’re likely to get a wide swath of responses to review and glean info from.

I don’t need a doomscroller to keep me occupied. I want communities where people are engaged and connected. For that you need both close and a large “pool” of users.

Every population follows a standard, normal distribution curve. At the tips of this curve are the trailblazers (who left and came to lemmy) and the opposite side who feel as passionate about staying as we did about leaving.

Now that we’ve moved the 3 rd standard deviation off of Reddit, the curve has shifted and the opposite deviation is amplified.

This is to be expected when you have a population-level shift in any observed population. :)

You’re totally right. It’s gonna take a few months to see some clear patterns develop. Reddit only had 8000 some odd active subs. The best should rise to the top quickly.

undefined> Close connections are more valuable than more connections.

It depends. Close connections of subject matter experts when discussing technical topics? Sure. When doing general research or looking for alternate solutions for something, you need mass. The difficulty of onboarding users into a federated environment hinders this.

Yes, and this is part of the problem. The great thing about an aggregation site is that it’s a collective place for ALL posts about a single topic, say /r/Technology. With Lemmy, you might have DOZENS of /c/technology communities and for you to get the VALUE of the MASS of users, you’d need to subscribe to them all. This is a significant barrier to mass adoption as “my wife” won’t be bothered to go out to many servers and subscribe to many communities just to get a reasonable flow of content.

Oh I understand how it works and the PROBLEM is that me, the user, shouldn’t give a shit if lemmy.world blocks sh.it just.works because the two admins are mortal enemies. But right now, I have to, because I would lose the content if one blocks the other.

Also, when you have 10,000 servers and on each server someone created a “Technology” community on all of them, how will ANY of those communities get any traction or a concentrated user base? As a creator, I’d be cross posting on every Technology community in every server I could find. That’s going to serve to fracture the comments section, which is where all the value comes from anyway.

Look, as long as I don’t have to remember both a community AND a server name, I’m good. I just don’t want to hav to remember and / or subscribe to multiple things with the exact same name.

Or the ability to ‘subscribe to the top 5 communities by user count’ on a specific topic like, “Technology” or “Pics” or “Aww”

Yeah, but not really. You couldn’t create r/Doug twice. You could create r/Dougs or r/Dougie, but not two r/Doug. Here, you can create a “Doug” for every server that exists.

I have hope for solutions though. There’s only about 8,000 active subreddits in total. The cream will rise to the top quickly and we’ll all get used to subscribing to the ‘top 3 or 4’ “Doug” communities and I’m sure the apps developed for Lemmy will ‘combine’ those behind the scenes for a smoother user experience.

HAH! I was just thinking, “huh, this is weird, but I think I could get used to it” and then your post came in and I accidentally clicked on it!!! Good to hear that it’s a known issue w/ a resolution in 0.18.0

I didn’t even know browse.feddit.de existed until you posted it!!! Hot tip right there. :)

It’s fractured by design. There are good things about being fractured. What we actually need is a “fractured” system with an aggregator to ensure the best user experience. You’ve heard of a system like this before: Cryptocurrencies are by nature ‘fractured’ but they use the term ‘decentralized’ and it’s what brings safety and security to digital assets. What we need is a “Coinbase” or a “Binance” who “aggregates” all of the “coins” so that a user can just go to the exchange and see ALL of the digital currencies without having to know each of their names and server addresses in advance.

Yes, but the problem is that your analogy isn’t a 1-2-1 comparison. You are correct that at reddit we had r/tech, r/technology, r/technews, etc etc etc, but on lemmy, ALL OF THOSE can be named “Technology” with exactly the same spelling. So, when I’m trying to refer someone to a “specific” Technology, I also have to include the server. A conversation may go, “Hey WooChoo, you gotta check out the posts over on Lemmy. They have the best Technology content on the internet” Then you go to some rando “Technology” on a new lemmy server and you don’t see any posts. What are the chances that you come back to me and say, “Hey Debo, remember that referral you gave me 6 weeks ago when we were talking? I went there and there wasn’t any users.” "Oh, sorry WooChoo, I forgot that you have to go to “THIS SPECIFIC SERVER of Technology” and then you’re in a federation conversation when you were just trying to share a hot tip.

We have to solve the content curation problem IMO. If we all love lemmy.world or sh.itjust.works and post 1000’s of hours of content to either and one of them just “shutters” the server then all that content is GONE. Or, am I missing something about how all this works?

If we want to “join” servers we need some type of content migration tool that allows the user to determine where their content is actually “hosted”.

We may see individual servers for heavy content creators as they’ll want some way to ensure that all of the federated servers can continue to access their content right?