I was just scrolling through my feed. This whole Firefox Chrome instanced post I have seen literally 15 times. Most of my feed is nothing but that post.
I understand trying to get Lemmy popular. And I understand distributing knowledge of this.
Sorry if I sound like I’m complaining. I want to like Lemmy. But I’m struggling. And I can’t do reddit.
Maybe I need to figure out a different algorithm like more threads to follow?
Maybe I’m part of too many technology threads. :)
It’s a bit of a concern though that as people decide which instance to post things to, they’ll tend to settle on the biggest instances, and after a while we’ll have a single centralized site that just happens to be federated with a bunch of sites no one uses. Federation will become irrelevant to how most people use it, and other instances won’t attract users or posts.
Because I don’t want to see Lemmy morph into Reddit, I try to scatter my posts to different instances. For each post I’ll pick a couple of instances and I’ll try to vary my choice a bit from post to post. I’d rather see some duplication and have things remain distributed, than have a single instance where all the activity takes place.
I hope moving communities and accounts from different instances becomes possible. I would like to see communities start moving away congregating on the largest instance, and instead maybe start joining instances based on topic. So all music related instances whether it be specific genres or bands go to a music instance. And tv show ones go to an entertainment instance. So everything just kind of becomes categorized into something easier follow and find when it comes to looking for new communities.