Kierunkowy74

… but actually one cannot describe Lemmy’s pitch in one simple sentence, because its main difference is: Reddit but no Spez, fora but connected to each other (and we call this “federation”), and Mastodon but with better topic and content discovery. Any attempt to shorten this will be more or less inaccurate.

So, main Lemmy features, listed under the “Join an instance”, “Apps”, “Explore random instance”, etc., IMHO should look like this:

No ads. No tracking. No meddling.

Posts and comments on your feed are determined only by your settings and users’ votes. All moderation actions are public and viewable using a modlog. We do not block third-party apps. Lemmy is a free software and you can check it for yourself.

(we are practically saying Reddit without Spez)

No single overlord. No isolation

There are dozens of Lemmy websites and you can choose your experience with different vibes, topics, regions and moderation approaches. Yet every instance connects to other ones (forming the Fediverse) and allows you to seamlessly talk with each other, even outside of control of Lemmy creators!

(fora but not siloed. Discussion viewable regardless of where you are logged in)

Know the entire discussion on the topic

All the talk on Lemmy happens on communities. Subscribe to any of them and you will receive complete threads of conversation, regardless where you are signed in. A search, which actually works.* Decentralised, but not fragmented.

(Mastodon but actually not fragmented)

All three “features”/“upsides” of Lemmy are related to each other, somewhat like rock-paper-scissors. All form one pitch of a platform which combines the best features of Reddit, fora and Mastodon solving downsides of these at the same time. It would make sense to display these on the carousel.

*does the search on Lemmy work better than on e.g. Reddit? A “better search than on Mastodon” claim would be plausible, anyway

Your own discussion network

MBin allows to follow individual users, including these from Lemmy.

Expect lack of comments for some posts for these users for the same reason as in Mastodon: the user might have posted to communities not subscribed from your instance yet as well…

Of course we can create another large set of sublemmies for new people to think that they may post there, but then it becomes apparent, why Ernest from /kbin has named them Magazines, and not Communities…

I will spare you guessing: with so much “community” names and few people using them “comms” become just categories to post and follow. It may work for a social news website (as it was a primary format of Digg and then Reddit), but this will not replace Reddit as place for discussions.

outdoor, travel

Maybe let’s introduce them to Wanderer first?

Productivity

I doubt they would remain here. The Threadiverse is biased towards Open Source and ethical solutions and for any normie not interested in it at all this will bore them quickly…

all about pets, dogs bunnies cats etc

A traditional forum is better for that purpose. One would better build it on NodeBB ;)

european tech workers?

Why would they use specifically the Threadiverse, if they could network better on (larger) Mastodon?

movies, animated movies, series, animated series

There was lemmy.film, but it went belly up. Many of communities from there moved to lemm.ee and then to PieFed.social.

And there is https://adultswim.fan/ .

anime, manga, manwha, webtoon

We literally have got https://ani.social/ .

gaming

https://lemmy.zip/ is skewed towards tech, PCs and gaming

instance for every city? mabe for every region?

It worked for much of Europe, for Canada, Chile, Brazil and Oceania. Regional instances were attempted for US and apart from https://midwest.social/ and https://yall.theatl.social/ (related to Mastodon instance) they failed.

European Union hub

Main problem of Europe Pub is that it isn’t a PieFed instance. Topics would easily direct interested users into their national subs, which already exist on national instances. Nowadays it is a duplication of effort, which either fragments or needlessly centralises the European Threadiverse, depending on its success.

medical advice

IMHO Quora would be a better place for this than Reddit (shall it not enshittify)

Yes, Hack Liberty closed their Matrix and Lemmy instances. Their forum post presents some alarming things on Matrix, but its Problems with Lemmy section consists only of few paragraphs on “federation issues” allegedly being the same as on Matrix (Wrong - not much of Matrix criticism is applicable to Lemmy), defederation and problems with entire Reddit/Lemmy/Tildes/other social news aggregators