I am subscribed to several different instances of lemmy
You mean you have accounts on different instances? I guess that is kind of a workaround that avoid the problem in the video. Then, you could just as easily make a separate facebook account for each group you join. But I don’t think that’s how most people will use it.
But that’s just the technical aspect of how the site infrastucture works. Unless you’re someone that exclusivly browses the local feed, the fact there are multiple instances has little impact on the user expirence.
The point in the video was, that you used to only interact with people in a single community. Like, you were on a forum for a specific game and you talked with people about that game, usually not knowing much else about them. So you lived in the same village.
On today’s social media platforms, including the fediverse, that’s not really the case. I can interact with you in a forum about a game … and then see you post some political opinion in another community we share … and suddenly you’re no longer just in my village, but you’re also a member of the rival tribe.
Some definitly do, but I think it depends on which one you’re on and how you use it. All my communities are on other instances and unless it’s an extreme instance like lemmygrad, I basically don’t really care or pay attention to which instance a community is on.
You could say the same about facebook groups or reddit. As long as you have an account on the platform, you can interact with any community on the platform. That’s not separation.
They were talking about the early days, where you had to make an account for every different forum or community you joined and there was basically no interaction between those different forums.
These villages were separated from each other by digital rivers or mountains
But the concept of federation in the fediverse removes these separations.
Older? It seems the general lemmy population is in their early 20s.
the current new reddit redesign on desktop is what I want
You sir, disgust me.
https://old.lemmy.world/ is the old reddit design. Not sure if it has auto srcolling and I can’t check because as usually, lemmy.world is down.
SSDs have no moving parts so they will make no noise and generally be more resilient than HDDs. They are really superior except when it comes to the price.