This post assumes you have a basic understanding of what Lemmy and Kbin are. Which, in turn, assumes you understand at least the concept of federation. The Issue Currently, the way Lemmy/Kbin (which I will refer to simply as “Lemmy” for the rest of this article) work like this: Cool, so our user can access content from both instances. They go to Instance #1 to talk about transporation, and Instance #2 to talk about animals.
  • tallwookie@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    when a potential new user comes to join the platform, they’re overwhelmed by the choices. And instead of having one big community of connected instances, we have multiple redundant communities which aren’t interacting at all

    the user will just gravitate to whichever community has the most activity. that’s what I did - I had subscribed to a bunch of news related communities so my “Subscribed/New” feed has new content. and then yesterday I went through and unsubscribed from the dead/inactive communities and noticed no difference in my feed.

    this really just feels like a solution in need of a problem