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This is true, but it does reinforce and cement in- and out-group dynamics. You're more likely to be exposed to unfamiliar ideas on a place like Reddit, specific
by ertian 3y ago
This is true, but it does reinforce and cement in- and out-group dynamics. You're more likely to be exposed to unfamiliar ideas on a place like Reddit, specifically because you don't _have_ to pick an explicit bubble. When picking a Lemmy instance, you kinda end up aligning yourself with some worldview, and letting some set of strangers curate your environment for you.
Incidentally, that's sort of the weirdest part of signing up for Lemmy. I can't be the only one who got to the "Pick an instance!" step and got kinda paralyzed. I'm a programmer, should I sign up to a programmer-centric instance? But I also have hobbies, political views, favorite forms & genres of media... Should those take priority? And by picking one of them, what curation or censorship am I going to be subject to?
I appreciate the fact that Lemmy isn't under the thumb of one monolith, and that I can bounce from once instance to another if the first isn't working out. But I also like the 'big-tent' feeling of Reddit, where I can sub to all kinds of subreddits, even if the two groups don't get along at all.
- kstrauser 3y agoI see what you're saying. OTOH, you can belong to several Lemmy instances at once. In that sense, it's kind of like phpBB. Which forum do I want to join? The set that covers my interests today! Maybe you like to argue about Star Trek vs Star Wars on a Sci-Fi Lemmy/phpBB, and learn to make soufflés the French Cuisine board of a Cooking Lemmy/phpBB. You don't have to join the Cooking instance and then limit yourself to looking for fellow chefs who also like Firefly.
- ertian 3y agoYeah, that's true. Others have said it elsewhere in this thread, but I wish identity was more independent in the fediverse. If federated services just used OAuth or something, your identity could be portable between Mastodon, Lemmy, and PeerTube, and you could use several instances without having to manage a bunch of different accounts. Heck, you wouldn't necessary _need_ accounts, they could just be implicitly created for you when you posted on a server.
- kstrauser 3y agoI'm with you there. I'd love if that were the case. Even if it were only for associated services, like having a domain-specific SSO for mastodon.example.com, pixelfed.example.com, and lemmy.example.com so that you didn't have to maintain 3 accounts for those 3 services owned and operated by the same people, it'd still be super useful.