• RatzChatsubo@lemm.ee
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    Lemmy will dethrone reddit once you are able to google a question and the Lemmy link is at the top as opposed to reddit

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      Reddit also had the ability to just type in my address bar “/r/obscurefandom” and be taken directly to the subreddit for it. Lemmy doesn’t have those smaller subs yet and you have to hunt for the right instance if it does.

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        Even TV shows that have been off air for a decade often have a thriving community. Merlin, the BBC show, has several posts per day. Similarly with Smallville. Lemmy’s communities are smaller and tend to be broken up across instances.

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          I feel like there needs to be instance aggregation for Lemmy to really work in the long run (and really this is probably true of the fediverse in general). Having to add communities across multiple instances, and not being able to browse them in a centralized way, really detracts from the experience. On Reddit, I subbed to the stuff I wanted and just lived off that feed. With Lemmy, I feel like I have to stay in unfiltered view to get anything of interest–the fragmented niche communities are just too limiting.

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          Reddit will have active subs for specific board games. The general board games magazine on Lemmy has 1 post a month.

          So ya, if I want to read comments on the latest episode of Loki to see what things people picked up on that I missed Reddit is currently the only place to find that.

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      Whelp, better get to asking questions… Someone ask me a question to an answer someone may want to search for

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      Even then, Reddit has accumulated so much technical advice over the years, I hope I can still find archived posts this way, if ever it truly does crash and burn.

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        What’s stopping someone from just copying the reddit history and building that knowledge base as under the hood of Lemmy?

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      Since lemmy instance are hit and miss. Some popular ones are already talking about shutting down or have shut down. I highly doubt lemmy will get there.

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        Bro, it’s so fucking frustrating that I need to be subbed to 5 different Android communities just to get my news.

        I can’t sub to just one because I miss news if I do.

        My only hope is that Boost brings multi-reddit support to Lemmy, so I can just click on “Android” and get the news from all 5 Android communities.

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      And Linux will dethrone windows.

      I wish they were true but reality is that people will accept just about any and all abuse and stay with the crap despite sometimes getting angry about it.