Yeah, I keep saying this to people when they worry about fragmentation. Like it's important to have all the Baseball fans in the same Baseball forum under one big banner.
No, that's not better, that's worse. What you want is a thousand interconnected forums with 100 people each, not a forum with 100,000 people.
@Gaywallet Replying in your mega-thread. KBin here is tagging you when I do that and I didn't delete it.
Haven't used Lemmy much, perhaps that behaviour is different?
@CeruleanRuin their website says right there on the nag popup. This website is deliberately user hostile, to drive you all onto the app where you can be efficiently transported towards the rotating knives.
I mostly just didn't look at Reddit much to avoid the trap.
@TheButtonJustSpins It's like letting oligarchs monopolize the means of communication is a bad idea or something!? Who knew.
If 200,000 people would rather figure out how to make all their individual forum softwares work together in synchrony than put up with your bloody app, Reddit, maybe you have a pretty shitty app?
Dunno. I never installed it coz I never install any apps if I can help it, and I know how to use a web browser. But if a quarter of a million people would rather subject themselves to the complexities of distributed information networks and the politics of inter-instance blocking than use your bloody app, Reddit, maybe you have a pretty shitty app?
It's like the kids today don't know what a web address is with their obsession with apps. They seem to prefer to download an executable than read a text document. If even them, a million zoomer kids who are normally obsessed with apps, if even they would rather entertain the idea of a communications commons not owned and controlled by oligarchs than use your app, then maybe you should have just used yer IPO money to buy Apollo?
Dunno. I've never installed either. Sounds sketchy. I distrust apps.
@Spzi KBin wasn't even a thing when Chat GPT's training cut-off date happened.
Federation is having some difficulties currently, mostly due to things overloading or the solutions to the overloading. It'll get better as there are more instances.
@Veritropism Very likely. One would hope that the Microsoft Support Forum is hosted on Microsoft's servers, say, for sure.
If I end up using it a lot I'll host my own eventually, but doubt I'd have to pay to host popular groups on it.
@agreenbhm Why it it worse to have multiple communities for the same topic spread across multiple instances vs having multiple communities for the same topic spread across multiple subreddits?
Seems like better redundancy and if they're all in the same app speaking the same protocols then similar functionally.
Even if there was only one subreddit why would it be better to have one instead of a long tail of many?
@JohnEdwa What happens is that people move to other instances and maybe start one with their friends, happens all the time.
Account migration will come to lemmy/kbin, and group-migration is really as easy as saying "Hey everyone, here's the new address"
@MasterBlaster You'll be able to have your favourite ones without having to also subscribe to that one with that idiot who won't shut up about it. Conversations are better with lots of small groups than one big stage.
@bfr0 There were also multiple gaming communities within reddit, lets face it. Can't herd people all into one place even if there's only one website they'll find a way to schism
@honeyed_coffee For the reasons the OP mentioned. Familiar faces, being recognized in a community instead of being just today's main character.
In a single large forum most participants are silent, as they must be or it'd be a cacophony. Many are silent out of worry that they need to say something good enough to impress a hundred thousand people, not just something interesting to their local 100 friends.
On Fediverse things escape their local instances and their local forum-groups by boosts mostly.
@Zigabyte