Example; midwest.social, lemmy.ca, lemmy.perthchat.org. It seems like a no brainer that midwesters, canadian and australians would sign up at those instances respectively, but instead they end up not there.

  • @_ed@sopuli.xyz
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    122 years ago

    Discovery is a problem. I think the fact there are 50 million 1-post communities in the ALL list (mostly on lemmy.ml) is not helpful. One thing I think beehaw does well is to limit the amount of communities and focus discussion.

    • alyaza [they/she]M
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      yeah, beyond the balkanizing of activity point this is a big one: there will be very few locals to begin with, and they’ll probably want to go where discussion is, not congregate in a mostly dead instance. so it’s a problem of getting a large enough group to move onto these instances to make them active, to draw further activity, etc.

      • @sexy_peach@feddit.de
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        52 years ago

        yes, but a counterpoint would be that everyone takes a while to figure out what subs they like on reddit, they move, make new accounts and whatnot. I think this is different than on twitter and mastodon, where most people just want to have 1 account and use it. So the moving of communities wouldn’t be uncommon in the future I think.

  • @graphito@beehaw.org
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    102 years ago

    Discovery of the instances is problematic. There’s no clear way to find them other than know they exist. Jerboa app don’t offer them either.

  • Inkie
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    Having just started exploring the world of federated community sites (I refuse to call it ‘fediverse’ because it sounds like the universe of feds, or something even worse in my language–) I do feel that like, seeing stuff from other instances in Mastodon comes a lot more naturally than it does on Lemmy. It does seem I only see posts/communities not in my native instance if I go deliberately seek them out. So there might be a structure issue that could be remedied either on that level or by user actions… ?

    Though that might be a wrong impression from a noob. It wouldn’t surprise me too much :P