Discoverability is a serious issue on Lemmy. I’d wager there’s a shitload of people here interested in the big US sports, but unless you know where the community is (and there’s often multiple, and sometimes on instances you’re not linked to), you’re not going to see it.

There’s just not enough users for any algorithm pushing of obscure communities you might be interested in either.

In the early years fo Reddit, those wouldn’t exist either. You have to start with bigger groups (NFL, NHL, etc) and split them if they ever get big enough.

We’d use Branston beans, but not gonna lie that looks shit hot. Would scran with a bottle of 8% cider.

As a software guy, that just sounds like one bit of software with two audiences that call it different things.

Everyone seems to be stepping on each others toes anyway, with “reels” and shit trying desperately to claw back some of those kids lost to TikTok.

Honestly not sure why the Fediverse is split that way either. A Lemmy client surely contains about 99% of the code to be a Mastodon client or Loops or Pixelfed or any of the others. Just looks like a procession of people constantly reinventing the wheel and painting it a different colour…

So one is for spreading right wing propaganda and one is for shilling knockoff perfumes?

Not surprising. As long as they can afford the servers, it will probably get to Mastadon levels.

Lemmy is a replacement for reddit, and reddit was always much smaller than Instagram.

And none of those settings will give you the experience you actually want.

I think there needs to be a way to plug algorithms in for those that want them.

You can post the same stuff on as many social media platforms as you want.

She still sees posts from friends? It’s probably mostly minions memes about immigrants by now.

See all the open source projects that immediately forked off whenever they get bought by a big company. Although it mostly seems to be Oracle that never learns from this.

No, all time based graphs should start at the big bang.

Doesn’t block their users though, only their communities.