nicky7

This is a good question! I don't know enough to answer correctly, but answering wrong will likely have someone correcting me ;)

I believe each instance will have local posts/comments, e.g. a local version of /l/gaming but there are 3 methods of viewing posts: local instance (all communities/posts for users on that instance), all (all communities on all instances), or communities (all instances, but specific community). I suspect filtering will improve to bring better ways of filtering and sorting, but it's going to be dependent on the lemmy app, mobile app, and potentially custom mods on an instance.

I feel like I was noticing this on the main site as well. I'd be surprised if they hadn't been changing the algorithms to spoon feed us specific content, but there's also a very high likelihood that the overall feel of the content has changed after swaths of people migrated out, and then I'm sure I have a bias against Reddit now as well :P

I share your sentiment up until the last bit which feels like gate keeping. There are enough healthy discussions coming from a lot of people outside of that demographic to make me want them to follow us here. Plus it's bad for reddit if they do. I worry about the negative effects, where quick and easy comments that are easier to digest get upvoted over well researched and thoughtful comments. But I'm hopeful that we can learn from the past and develop tools to better incentivize people to write thoughtful comments. I think the fediverse has the potential to help us avoid dumbification of content, but it also brings greater risk of creating echo chambers.

My sentiments exactly! The app developers will make the same, all or most of that fee will go straight into reddit's pockets.