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this post was submitted on 23 Jun 2023
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I think part of the issue is that all the different Lemmy and kbin instances are trying to be Reddit themselves. By which I mean there are a bunch of instances with no focus. They're all "kitchen sink" instances, each with their own Politics, Tech, Cats, etc.
Lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, kbin.social, fedia.io. All of them are generic reddit alternatives, but the real reddit alternative is the amalgamation of subscriptions from multiple more focused instances.
Startrek.website is a great example of the opposite: it's an instance focused on one topic, where some people will want to sign up as a user and others will want to just subscribe to one of their three (!) boards from their own instance. They don't need their own Politics topic, users on the site that care about it will subscribe to a politics topic from another instance. The startrek admins and mods only have to care about their one focus.
My ideal fediverse feed would be pulling individual topics from a few dozen more focused instances instead of one generalist instance. I think that's what's going to end up happening.
I don't believe most Lemmy users will tolerate maintaining more than one account on once instance. If I can't see it from my account, then it doesn't exist. This is all starting to sound like old school phpbb forum with new paint.
Why would you create a new account to browse the startrek dedicated instance instead of subscribing to the community that lives on their instance?
Also, this might just be personal experience, but so far I'm finding it far easier to browse a single community on no matter what general instance rather than going through a separate topic-focused instance.
The idea is that you browse your feed of subscriptions, not that you literally go to an instance and browse their local feed.