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Cake day: June 8th, 2023

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  • This is going to sound really dickish and maybe it is, but people will keep it because it’s a helpful descriptor and the developers feelings about the term are less important than the term being helpful. Plus there’s no ill intent behind it.

    It’s like if you built a ranch-style home then threw a fit when people called it that because you don’t like the term. Sorry, but people are going to call it that because it’s helpful and not intended to be disparaging.




  • Exactly, the issue is just with communities that I don’t know exist. If I can’t search for them from my instance, it’s really difficult to find them. Then add to that that the communities are so fragmented (there may be 100 different communities for the same topic across different instances). If I search for a topic (ex. Gaming) I want THE biggest, most active gaming community.

    Lemmy has the potential to get there, but if they want to attract and keep users en masse, it needs to prioritize making it not feel like such a fragmented experience.