Discovery is a problem. I think the fact there are 50 million 1-post communities in the ALL list (mostly on lemmy.ml) is not helpful. One thing I think beehaw does well is to limit the amount of communities and focus discussion.
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Relaxed section for discussion and debate that doesn't fit anywhere else. Whether it's advice, how your week is going, a link that's at the back of your mind, or something like that, it can likely go here.
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Having a list of related/like minded communities as a separate sidebar might be useful. I've listed related communities in my https://sopuli.xyz/c/classicalbums community about area, but it feels a little adhoc
Discovery of the instances is problematic. There's no clear way to find them other than know they exist. Jerboa app don't offer them either.
There just needs to be a public listing somewhere and there sort of is
nobody knows about lemmy and even fewer people know about the small servers ^^
yeah, beyond the balkanizing of activity point this is a big one: there will be very few locals to begin with, and they'll probably want to go where discussion is, not congregate in a mostly dead instance. so it's a problem of getting a large enough group to move onto these instances to make them active, to draw further activity, etc.
yes, but a counterpoint would be that everyone takes a while to figure out what subs they like on reddit, they move, make new accounts and whatnot. I think this is different than on twitter and mastodon, where most people just want to have 1 account and use it. So the moving of communities wouldn't be uncommon in the future I think.
Having just started exploring the world of federated community sites (I refuse to call it 'fediverse' because it sounds like the universe of feds, or something even worse in my language--) I do feel that like, seeing stuff from other instances in Mastodon comes a lot more naturally than it does on Lemmy. It does seem I only see posts/communities not in my native instance if I go deliberately seek them out. So there might be a structure issue that could be remedied either on that level or by user actions... ?
Though that might be a wrong impression from a noob. It wouldn't surprise me too much :P
something even worse in my language
Mind sharing? I'm curious.
"Fede" in portuguese means -- "Stinks"
So the fede-verse would be the stinky universe. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I think the devs made it purposefully sort by local. This was to encourage each instance to create more of its own content.
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https://lemmy.ca/c/furry post anything there and i'll give you moderator status there. Also if you discover a furry sub that isnt inactive let me know
Hm. You have my curiosity, I'll bite.
try subscribing to some of subs, they should come up more often in your feed
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Maybe some more users would do some good? I have friends I can bring!