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this post was submitted on 11 Sep 2024
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There are a few reasons why people on Reddit prefer to stay there rather than move elsewhere
We are kind of working on the first one (and anyway, the only way to get content is to get more and more users)
For the second one, that's something even harder to tackle. !newcommunities@lemmy.world tries to fill that gap, but same as above, it needs more users.
The third one is the most interesting. At some point in the future, Reddit is going to kill old.reddit. By that time, people will look for an alternative, and if they know about Lemmy, they'll give it a try.
Lemmy is better than Reddit on the following points:
It's just not enough at the moment, as stated above.
If I were a dev, I'd probably prioritize that awful 'THIS HAS FAILED!' error when you search for a new community that your server doesn't know about because well, new users who don't know that doesn't mean what it says are going to walk away thinking something either doesn't exist or is broken.
I also kinda think that community lists and activity stats should somehow be federated between all the servers that know each other.
Like, lemmy.world knows uncomfortable.business exists, so both servers should know the full list of non-private communities that COULD in theory be federated and be pre-populated in the search results.
And then feddit.org is federated with lemmy.world, so all 3 of the servers should be fully aware of each other's communities so that a user that lands on ANY instance immediately has a working searchable list of all communities that exist.
Some overhead, sure, but the amount of data here is probably just a one-time big sync and then a small number of updates which is certainly not going to break anything given how chatty lemmy already is.