I guess one thing I like already is that there’s no requirements for Karma, stupid rules about Reddit’s filters which got my 100k karma account permanently banned for no reason at all.
Would you prefer Lemmy to be smaller like it is now or get to a reddit level popularity but without the reddit jank.
This is unpopular but I’d like to see LESS niche communities. I dont want to see 1000 game communities I want to see one game community where all the people are making threads about the games they like. When its big enough then that game can split into its own community.
Because i may not go out of my way to find a community like guild wars 1 but if I see a post about it in the games community I’d join in. The interest isnt always there it needs to be created sometimes. And it can be created by people seeing threads of interested people talking about their interest.
How about community taxonomy?
Say there’s a gaming community.
Then there’s a PC gaming community, then a MMO game community, and there’s communities for individual games subdivided into that.
So if you’re in /c/PCgaming, posts in /c/GuildWars will (by default) show up in your feed.
If you are in /c/GuildWars, you (by default) get the hyper focus, and exposure from your post filtering up to more general tiers.
But this sharing is toggleable too. For example, you could choose to only float it up to the “MMO” level without drawing in the /c/gaming crowd
And this structure kinda naturally fits underlying database structures anyway.
Reddit could not evolve like this, but now that we kinda know what niches exist, that could be constructed from scratch and maintained.
As a whole, Lemmy isn’t really big enough to branch out into individual game communities just yet. They just end up petering out.
I wouldn’t be against it since r/games is used for mainly game announcements and r/gaming is a facebook tier cesspool. I wouldn’t mind a community like that.