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  • I think the confusion arises when people try to optimize maximum usage of “Lemmy” instead of just hearing someone say “hey join midwest.social it’s fun, I’ll see you there”, and then they say “ok” and signup and use it as-is, like the old forum days. Don’t even need to use the word “Lemmy”.

    They probably weren’t optimally using Reddit to its fullest potential, yet they won’t even dip their toe into Lemmy until they have a perfectly optimal gameplan of maximizing their usage of Lemmy better than anyone ever has before. Just jump in! You don’t have to be perfect, just click around and upvote and leave comments.





  • like I said, hashtags are fun, but the fact that even if you follow the hashtag it only shows posts that were already federated into your instance confuses people

    communities/groups will federate the posts for you if you follow, but following a hashtag does not give any federation

    Even if you could follow hashtags on Lemmy, you would also need to be able to follow users for anything to show up (so that’s 2 big new features required). And since it requires following users, that would also mean a culture shift would be required, you’d need to convince your instance-mates to use their Lemmy accounts to follow people, but people are mostly here to follow communities not people.

    I’m not against the features being added, I just don’t think they’re going to be as impactful to the Lemmy platform as expected.