Not sure this reply will get seen by the kind people who have helped explain this situation to me but I just want to say “thank you”. And I get it. The ethos here is the diversity and the federation — Reddit subs were easily corrupted by power hungry turds… anyway… there were a lot of thoughtful replies and I appreciate all that.
I still feel new here but I’m pleased to be welcomed by a lot of very thoughtful and patient people.
I can barely figure all this out and my goal is exactly where you are talking about — to make adopting Lemmy as easy as possible to attract as many users away from the corporate social media as possible.
I suppose that I can personally tolerate same-theme communities across multiple instances. I feel like I was a late arrival at Reddit and when I grasped it’s potential, it became an important source of information, entertainment and community for me. Then it imploded.
But a lot of people are still over there and I guess I hope to see it flatlined completely.
So I hope that Lemmy can be as easy to use as possible.
But this thread has persuaded me that redundant groups are healthy. I just hope new users come here and abandon all corporate social media.
Please tell me someone can get this to the SUITS creators. I’m still watching and it just gets better. There’s something for everyone: intrigue, criminality, romance, and when Harvey loses it: violence.