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Do you look forward to that more narrow interest, or do you believe that's how it'll become?
I'm hoping Lemmy doesn't become like Reddit. I hope there are a bunch of little villages or communities. We'll see what happens.
O man, loaded question. In some ways yes I want a place like Reddit where every community I want to be a part of exists. In other ways I am really enjoying the small aspects of Lemmy so far. This feels like the "old" internet to me where the community owns everything, we build the software, the hosting, the support methods, the rules... I cant tell if my nostalgia for the old wild west internet is bias due to age, or if its because we have spent the last 10 years living under "benevolent" corporate overlords and are just now seeing the risks to the internet that came with allowing them to have all that power and control.
One thing I like is that instances and communities get to control the ingress into their community the way they want. There will always be a place for small communities with narrow focus and entry, and because of that I think its possible that we can have the big communities that feel like Reddit along with the small ones that feel like old IRC channels, usenet, BBS's, forums of yore.
Yes, I'm all about bringing back the old internet.
Matrix is the new IRC. We're going full circle! Bellbottoms are back!
Im old, but im not that old....
I was around when they came back in the 90s.