This is a big problem. It creates the illusion that /c/cats on one particular instance is the real /c/cats.

This is the root of re-centralization and it must be pulled out.

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    I don’t believe most Lemmy users will tolerate maintaining more than one account on once instance. If I can’t see it from my account, then it doesn’t exist. This is all starting to sound like old school phpbb forum with new paint.

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      You don’t need more than one account. You just decide which instance you want an account on, then subscribe to all the topics you care about across multiple instances. I just think that generalist instances with thousands of local topics are unnecessary.

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      Why would you create a new account to browse the startrek dedicated instance instead of subscribing to the community that lives on their instance?

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        Also, this might just be personal experience, but so far I’m finding it far easier to browse a single community on no matter what general instance rather than going through a separate topic-focused instance.

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          The idea is that you browse your feed of subscriptions, not that you literally go to an instance and browse their local feed.

      • You create an account there probably because you are a star trek fan and want to show it off

        Hell, they could’ve disabled account registration and just hosted the communities. Lemmy allows for that kind of flexibility

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          Yeah, I just meant the other user seemed to think you had to create an account for every federated instance you wanted to interact with.