Hmm, weird. It works for me now

English version reroutes to the Lemmy (musician) page

I guess I’m not seeing any benefit to just having each of those communities you described run their own Lemmy instance. There is already LemmyNSFW.com for example. And then if they want a local community for music etc. they can have it, or subscribe to (a theoretical) LemmyMusic.com. Then users can have their home base but still subscribe to other remote communities.

If discovery is the concern, that can be solved more easily than building out a entirely new infrastructure like you are proposing.

This is essentially happening now. All the big servers (Lemmy.world / beehaw / Lemmy.ml) host the lions share of the content and discussion. Me and my users are essentially a user server in your example.

I think swapping from one API to another is not just a drop in replacement; it might be easier to start fresh from the ground up.

Disclaimer: I am not a developer so I honestly don’t actually know

If it’s not broken why change it? Are there performance benefits to switching?

And he apparently removed this post when posted on lemmy.one a week ago.

When you find a cool community like this, consider putting it here to help others discover it:

[email protected]

FYI, Lemmy uses ActivityPub too. It is fully compatible with other fediverse services. Just not executed as cleanly as kbin.

I explained that hashtags use the pound symbol already, and usernames use the @ symbol. Communities needed their own symbol.

You already said that

I think it has more to do with the federated nature of the platform. If you are ingesting content from Mastodon for example, # is a hashtag in a post, and you can tag someone with their username with the @ symbol.

Edit: you can tag people here with @ too - such as @knova@[email protected]

So that leaves a new symbol for community linking

If this gets refined a bit with input from the community, I’d recommend adding it to the join-Lemmy repository and making it a part of the official join-Lemmy.org site so instance admins can point to a single location. Also makes it more likely users will see it when checking out Lemmy in the first place