I appreciate the decentralized architecture and the privacy that comes with it, but it’s organization isn’t great.
I’m not sure if I understand why certain instances can choose not to federate with other instances. It just seems to limit the content that is accessible to me. I don’t want to have to switch between 4-5 Lemmy accounts that I switch just to curate what I to see. Its impractical.
I’m not happy with the changes on reddit and will most likely ditch entirely soon. Lately I’ve only been using it for tutorials. But at least I wasn’t closed off from viewing anything and everything I wanted without sifting through instances. I hope great things come for Lemmy, competitors are great, but in its current state it just seems doomed.
As a reddit immigrant, I have to say lemmy is much more complicated than reddit. That’s not necessarily bad, but the learning curve is steeper.
This is a great example. I honestly didn’t know about this. May I ask which instance(?) would be good to join while I look for communities I’m interested in? I signed up with lemmy.ml initially but I saw they were having trouble with the influx of new users so I decided to move to lemmy.one without knowing this. Thanks!