What are your thoughts on the Lemmy ecosystem?

I’ve been trying it out for the last week. I have my own opinions, but I’d like to hear others and see if we have common ideas on what is good/bad/indifferent about the Lemmy ecosystem.

  • Blaze (he/him)
    3·
    2 hours ago

    Aside from the currently low number of users, the fact that you can have the same community in different instances means a community will never grow large enough.

    Isn’t !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com an example of a community which grew large enough to become the reference?

    • Skates@feddit.nl
      1·
      1 hour ago

      Not sure. I can’t remember right now why I blocked dbzer0 completely, but my filters are blocking this instance. Which I guess is another side of the same coin: defederation (and allowing entire instances to be blocked) also contributes to fragmentation of communities. I had no idea the largest piracy community is on dbzer0, so I would subscribe to another piracy community on another instance, and thus split the memberships even more.