One account gives you access to all the communities?

Years of UI/UX development (arguably, both are bad, but still more developed than anything Lemmy has)?

Easily navigate a user’s post- and comment history?

Space for more specialised communities due to larger user base?

More, and more experienced, mods due to larger user base?

I’m sure we could play this game all day. I guess it depends on whether you see each instance as an individual “Reddit”, or see Lemmy as a fractured “Reddit” with big chasms that need separate accounts to be successfully bridged.

Personally, I see Lemmy as potentially being the latter. Having one Lemmy account (or maybe even one ActivityPub account) would allow me to subscribe to the communities I’m interested in, without having to worry about whether those communities are federated with each other. The instance mods can still de/federated how they feel they need to, in order to make their mod tasks manageable.

If BeeHaw still wants a manual application process for vetting purposes, it shouldn’t matter if I’m asking for permission to create an account, or asking for permission to bring in my already existing account. Instance mods can still gatekeep to the exact level that they want.

I’ve taken my (quite small) subreddit dark and don’t plan on opening it again any time soon, if ever.

To be fair, it’s very niche, and i don’t think there is actually any useful information there other than links to articles.

It’s a protest, and since Reddit seems internet on killing itself, the protest goes on. I guess they’ll just kick me out eventually if they feel like it’s important enough. shrugs

Never heard of it, just went to have a look and they had a “give it a try” button with a “best headphones” example. Note the very first result. Given the context of this thread, pretty funny 😅