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The sad reality is that during the reddit blackout, people were pushing lemmy (specifically Beehaw) as the reddit replacement because yay decentralized, federated, fun!
For a lot of those reddit refugees the effort they put into making content and trying to make Beehaw their home is gone now.
They're not going to want to start all over at a new instance and rebuild yet again.
They're just going to go back to reddit
Exactly. I've been trying to rebuild my account on lemmy.world but it's disenheartening and honestly makes me want to not bother. The answer isnt defederating, the answer is find some mods.
This defed thing and finding my feed now not updating from communities I joined on lemmy.world and now having to explore other instances that seem unlikely to defed from lemmy.world and vice versa makes it apparent it's not a substitute for a reddit subscription feed yet with the risk of sudden cut off.
Aside from lemmy I had been using squabble and even with like only 14,000 users it felt very active because creation of communities and posting was so much simpler. There I've gotten more of a subscription feed experience that feels bit more reddit. It's lot more casual though.
I hope some update for lemmy comes out where at the very least there can be some type of RSS agnostic feed where I can set up multisubreddit equivalents to follow my communities and view posts regardless of whether I’m signed in or not, so the only decision I have to make when it comes to logging into an account is which one to use so I can interact with my community.
Something like this
lemmy/c/PatientGamers@sh.itjust.works+technology@beehaw.org+Futurama @lemmy.world+Android@lemmy.world+RetroGaming@lemmy.world+PC Gaming@lemmy.ca+Movies and TV Shows@lemmy.film/.rss
I think the issue is that everyone's so focused on seeing Lemmy as a "notReddit" that they outright get pissed when it doesn't work the way they think it should (like Reddit except the parts they think are bad)
Lemmy (and kbin, and other similar platforms) and Reddit have the same niche, but they're not the same thing
I feel like the concept of "decentralisation" is good for the consuming users and people who want to discuss an interesting topic/subject, but not really for OC/content craetors... They just want their work to be as exposed to as many people as possible (exposure -> more clients -> bigger brand/value -> profit???), and defederalisating goes against that principle.