• Kichae@lemmy.ca
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    6 days ago

    But that’s just it, “Lemmy’s” front page isn’t like that. There’s no “Lemmy” front page. There’s a thousand different ones.

    Reddit is a website. Lemmy is a potentially unlimited, constantly changing, number of websites. They’re not directly comparable.

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        4 days ago

        So, what we mean by “Lemmy”, then, is the circle of 5 - 10 largest, unfocused “general interest” Lemmy-based sites?

        Because front page of startrek.website and ttrpg.network look quite a bit different. The All page of ttrpg.network is meaningfully, though not radically, different from the All pages on those sites. And you’ve already mentioned beehaw, which probably should be seen as a better model for how to operate a Lemmy-based website. leminal.space also has a fairly long block list, and its All page is also meaningfully different and less grating than seen on the Big 5.

        It looks different depending on which site you’re using. Unless you restrict yourself to the sites that do everything the same as one another.

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        5 days ago

        You get an ENORMOUSLY different feed checking out lemmy.ml though.

        Also extremely relevant: the top instance hit by a Google search of “Lemmy” is that instance (even though DuckDuckGo pushes Lemmy.World higher).

        Therefore, to a non-tech enthusiast, “Lemmy” = that instance. We can argue that it should not be, but it is what it is.

        • Blaze (he/him)@feddit.orgOP
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          5 days ago

          As always, that’s why people should always give one of the instances above when they mention Lemmy, to avoid people having to look up themselves