Asklemmy

So sort of like what the forums of yore were like? You’d have a website for a dedicated, broad topic (like a video game franchise or a brand you like), then subforums for topics in it (specific games in the series or specific products by the brand)

I think this is definitely the right approach and would greatly help adoption. There’s so much potential for overlap under the current model (10 different communities for one sports team, for instance) and trying to just be a federated Reddit misses the mark IMO.

I took this approach with Magic: the Gathering at https://mtgzone.com which is just focused on MTG and has communities specific to the formats and interests areas within the game.

I don't really think we need a rule to it. And honestly, what about when themes overlap? Do we get dividing communities just because?

Also, it would just promote an echo chamber like Twitter.

Communities does what you want already. In time, some will pop off and become the popular ones. Maybe some will be split because of users not agreeing with something, but that already happened on Reddit as well.

There is already a couple like this. lemmy.dbzer0.com for example is a piracy themed instance, and all communities hosted on it are piracy-related.

I think more regional / city instances would be great. Seems like a natural way to consolidate activity around local content, meetups, activism, etc etc while also staying totally connected to everything else

If I want to post here: https://lemmy.world/post/108806?scrollToComments=true with my lemmi.ml login, how do I do that?

(Also how do I log in to lemmy.ml on ios, safari just gives me endless loading upon clicking the login button)

I feel like is not necessary because you can subscribe and communicate to subLems from basically anywhere. We're right now 2 users from 2 different instances talking at a subLem originate at a 3rd instance, but does it even matter? As long as everything's federated it (basically) doesn't matter where you're account is from, and what subLems are originate from your instance. That's the whole beauty of the fediverse.

PS, I do glad that lemmygard implemented your idea, so because my instance defederate them I don't have to see those guys ever again (they're the reason I ditched my lemmy.ml account long ago).

Currently users of Lemmy are "power users". The fact that power users can't even work out how to use Lemmy 'properly' is sign of its future

I saw the scramble exodus from twitter to fedi, specifcally mastodon, when elon took over, give it time, when it first happened the Main instance Mastodon.social was swarmed aswell as the instances listed in mastodons Website at the time, over time more instances popped up with themes, im aware of lemmy-php which uses phpbb What doomed lemmy migration is how short the Protest is, over the 3 month Period with twitter fediverse microblogging adapted, just as reddit Corp will ride the wave so will lemmy with minor change, what needs to happen is the suggested "indefinite Protest" it will make lemmy instances pop up with themes, and smaller instances contributing to federation Themed instances already include lemmygrad.ml