TerryTPlatypus

u/TerryTPlatypus@beehaw.org
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Hmmm, thanks for bringing up those points and clarifying it for me. Hopefully research will pan out ways to make these functional groups efficiently, but as of now we have yet to see. Maybe in the future we could take advantage of genetic engineering and bacteria to produce the groups we need from the raw components...

I agree, the experience of searching for a community on Lemmy is really weird--there needs to be a better way of searching for communities that suit your specific interests, and it can get weirded due to the fact that some instances can be more specific than others, or an instance might not be in your federation.

In addition, the communities bar is nice, but it would be cooler if instances and/or communities were sorted into groups--i feel that would be a lot more approachable than a table of communities.

i can agree with this. I think the reason why a select few instances are growing bigger is because people don't quite get the concept of federation yet, probably due to the fear of missing out on what others have to say outside of their instance. The main reason I joined beehaw was because it wasn't too big, but now I am starting to realize that as long as your instance is federated to bigger ones, you basically don't need to leave your own instance to view other communities, which is a kind of weird experience, but also kind of refreshing. I basically came into it with the fear that with decentralization I wouldn't have access to everyone else, and everyone would be fragmented into their own communities, and those fears are partially alleviated now. There are some concerns about instances i do want to get to, like lemmygrad, but for now, I am pretty content.

So far, I've been a Reddit user for like two to three years now, and a Lemmy user for like 3 days. It's definitely a transition, but so far, it seems to have potential. This instance's mod team is doing a good job, and the content is pretty good so far. I just need to let go of older social media habits, I guess lol.