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Would be quite useful to add the focus of each instance (e.g. tecnhology, music, art, etc). Reddit migrants to lemmy would probably want to join specialized in

Would be quite useful to add the focus of each instance (e.g. tecnhology, music, art, etc). Reddit migrants to lemmy would probably want to join specialized instances that resemble the subs they frequented. p.s. checking out beehaw I realise that lemmy can be run either as a reddit alternative (with lots of subreddits communities on different topics) or as a discourse type forum (with categories). thats good flexibility to have, but for easy discovery it needs to be managed somehow

brainbag 3y ago
How do we explain what instance to join for people if they followed technology, music, and art? I have tried explaining this to friends, and there's new and unique vocabulary. I end up having to explain a bunch of other stuff too and their eyes glaze over. Is there an ELI5 or guided setup for people who don't want to deep dive into federation but want to talk about art, music, and tech (and memes)?
- The_Colonel 3y ago
  It's not that difficult. Lemmy is like email. You need an instance to host your account like gmail, outlook or gmx, but you can still send/receive emails with everybody else.
  - brainbag 3y ago
    I appreciate the reply, but I think that's a bit oversimplified. Gmail, outlook, etc. doesn't have "topics" and the instance you join does matter to some degree, which is not the case for email.
- praisewhitey 3y ago
  Ideally they would join any instance and follow the topics they're interested like they would subscribing to a subreddit, and the fact that content is spread out over several instances isn't something users need to worry about. The reality is that discovery is terrible right now and you can't browse a feed of all Tech/Music/Art threads from all federated instances. Hopefully this is being worked on.
ticoombs 3y ago
Any instance can connect to any other instance by design. That includes any of the communities (sub Reddits). Any community is available from any instance. So if you join a general instance (like reddthat.com #selfplug) you can search in the communities and find any other community and subscribe to it. browse.feddit.de is the current place that searches every fediverse instance, and indexes all the communities. So your can find any community, even if the instance has not federated yet
- distcs 3y ago
  > Any instance can connect to any other instance by design. That includes any of the communities (sub Reddits). Any community is available from any instance. Which is both good and bad. Good because federation of course. But it also ends up fracturing the community. Say all the r/python people decide to move out from Reddit to Lemmy. They are probably going to go to different Lemmy instances each with their own c/python community. Yes you can follow any c/python from any instance but let's be honest, how many such c/python communities are you going to follow?
  - nologic01 3y ago
    Using tags creatively might offer another handle (so bundling all #python stuff from all federated instances in a virtual "python" feed)
abrztam 3y ago
For programming topics there is this one that is growing: https://programming.dev/ https://programming.dev/

brainbag 3y ago

How do we explain what instance to join for people if they followed technology, music, and art? I have tried explaining this to friends, and there's new and unique vocabulary. I end up having to explain a bunch of other stuff too and their eyes glaze over. Is there an ELI5 or guided setup for people who don't want to deep dive into federation but want to talk about art, music, and tech (and memes)?

The_Colonel 3y ago
It's not that difficult. Lemmy is like email. You need an instance to host your account like gmail, outlook or gmx, but you can still send/receive emails with everybody else.
- brainbag 3y ago
  I appreciate the reply, but I think that's a bit oversimplified. Gmail, outlook, etc. doesn't have "topics" and the instance you join does matter to some degree, which is not the case for email.
praisewhitey 3y ago
Ideally they would join any instance and follow the topics they're interested like they would subscribing to a subreddit, and the fact that content is spread out over several instances isn't something users need to worry about. The reality is that discovery is terrible right now and you can't browse a feed of all Tech/Music/Art threads from all federated instances. Hopefully this is being worked on.

ticoombs 3y ago

Any instance can connect to any other instance by design. That includes any of the communities (sub Reddits). Any community is available from any instance. So if you join a general instance (like reddthat.com #selfplug) you can search in the communities and find any other community and subscribe to it. browse.feddit.de is the current place that searches every fediverse instance, and indexes all the communities. So your can find any community, even if the instance has not federated yet

distcs 3y ago
> Any instance can connect to any other instance by design. That includes any of the communities (sub Reddits). Any community is available from any instance. Which is both good and bad. Good because federation of course. But it also ends up fracturing the community. Say all the r/python people decide to move out from Reddit to Lemmy. They are probably going to go to different Lemmy instances each with their own c/python community. Yes you can follow any c/python from any instance but let's be honest, how many such c/python communities are you going to follow?
- nologic01 3y ago
  Using tags creatively might offer another handle (so bundling all #python stuff from all federated instances in a virtual "python" feed)

abrztam 3y ago

For programming topics there is this one that is growing: https://programming.dev/ https://programming.dev/