Very deliberate. Why make another mastodon / pleroma / twitter alternative? Those already exist. Lemmy is a federated link aggregator, based around the model of following federated communities / interests, not people, of which there are only a few being developed right now.
so unlike reddit, lemmy’s vision is to create purely a link aggregator, not a blog.
well alot would disagree, but I know some cases where you want to follow someone from certain topics;
for an example in reddit, in r/writingprompts. some would follow someone to enjoy more of their writings.
maybe a creator links to a blog they have that doesn’t have a comment section. the followers would want to follow the creator in this case.
in mystery related subs, they want to follow a content creator that solves mysteries with users on there. I know that’s a big thing on reddit.
and some people might bring up more interesting topics than others, and when that happens, people tend to follow them. it still can be a topic-focused community.
though if you’re making a different thing, that’s fine. I’m saying that it might be a good thing for communities to have a follow feature. lemmy still can stay topic-focused.
I also think that platforms that are more intuitive for discussion is far better for microblogging. I liked reddit as a platform for everything, because things are divided in topics/interests/communities. and because of the design of the comments, everyone is engaging with everyone else. not like twitter and mastodon, where people just have comments that have little to no interaction. It’s somewhat a miserable place for users to be in.
TL;DR, lemmy has potential to replace reddit altogether, I think once users realize that they can use lemmy for everything they do on reddit. they will definitely come here. because It’s a far better alternative for them.
We may add user following far in the future, but it’ll be a long time.
But for your use case, I think that popular writers would still post their prompts to [email protected] , and anyone who’s subscribed to that community will see them in their feed.
Very deliberate. Why make another mastodon / pleroma / twitter alternative? Those already exist. Lemmy is a federated link aggregator, based around the model of following federated communities / interests, not people, of which there are only a few being developed right now.
so unlike reddit, lemmy’s vision is to create purely a link aggregator, not a blog.
well alot would disagree, but I know some cases where you want to follow someone from certain topics;
for an example in reddit, in r/writingprompts. some would follow someone to enjoy more of their writings.
maybe a creator links to a blog they have that doesn’t have a comment section. the followers would want to follow the creator in this case.
in mystery related subs, they want to follow a content creator that solves mysteries with users on there. I know that’s a big thing on reddit.
and some people might bring up more interesting topics than others, and when that happens, people tend to follow them. it still can be a topic-focused community.
though if you’re making a different thing, that’s fine. I’m saying that it might be a good thing for communities to have a follow feature. lemmy still can stay topic-focused.
I also think that platforms that are more intuitive for discussion is far better for microblogging. I liked reddit as a platform for everything, because things are divided in topics/interests/communities. and because of the design of the comments, everyone is engaging with everyone else. not like twitter and mastodon, where people just have comments that have little to no interaction. It’s somewhat a miserable place for users to be in.
TL;DR, lemmy has potential to replace reddit altogether, I think once users realize that they can use lemmy for everything they do on reddit. they will definitely come here. because It’s a far better alternative for them.
We may add user following far in the future, but it’ll be a long time.
But for your use case, I think that popular writers would still post their prompts to [email protected] , and anyone who’s subscribed to that community will see them in their feed.
Yes! please consider it, I’ll always be waiting for that to happen.
I’ll ask the prompt writer’s of reddit to also post their WP here, so to contribute.