The big problem is Lemmy is designed to work against federation in every way. Communities must be forced into existence because you can’t just casually post on your instances /r/knitting and expect anyone to see it.
For every community there has to be a “big community” to become established or else it doesn’t exist in a practical sense in Lemmy.
And when it does get established, then the"big one" sucks the air out for all others.
This is a major architectural flaw with Lemmy that was inserted in purpose to concentrate discussion control power in the hands of centralized moderators.
The big problem is Lemmy is designed to work against federation in every way. Communities must be forced into existence because you can’t just casually post on your instances /r/knitting and expect anyone to see it.
For every community there has to be a “big community” to become established or else it doesn’t exist in a practical sense in Lemmy.
And when it does get established, then the"big one" sucks the air out for all others.
This is a major architectural flaw with Lemmy that was inserted in purpose to concentrate discussion control power in the hands of centralized moderators.
End result, if you want to talk knitting, you’ll have to go to https://lemmy.world/c/knitting