What I miss are the gaming communities. There is no talk about games I play on Lemmy, just general gaming communities and I never browsed r/gaming either. Biggest let-down: PoE even has a dedicated Lemmy instance but it’s empty and abandoned.

There is just not enough demand because only a minor fraction of reddit users got hit by the 3rd-party app slaughter. The vast majority doesn’t care and still stayed on reddit. It was the expected outcome.

Hot take of the day: What doesn’t help with this is how fractured communities are throughout the instances. What I mean by this is if I subscribe to “World News” on lemmy.world, I won’t see the posts from the same type community on other instances, like “World News” on beehaw, in my subscriber feed unless I subscribe to them too (or someone crossposts). This adds an unnecessary level of micro-management and probably also drives people away from Lemmy. The biggest strength of Lemmy is so-to-speak also its biggest weakness.

[–] okmko@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow, is that last point true? I guess I misunderstood how federation worked big time. I thought by subscribing to something like "news", I was supposed to receive all posts and comments to those posts from all whitelisted instances like some kind of syndication. Is that not actually how it works?

[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I only get the posts from communities I am directly subscribed with. So if there is something like syndication, it does not work for me.

[–] okmko@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Oh nooo

[–] PurplePropagule@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Idk if that's even a hot take. It's something I've talked to several people about and honestly one of the reasons I don't think lemmy will end up growing much past its current user base. Too much micromanaging when most people just want to see content that interests them.