I come from Reddit and been enjoying Lemmy so far. How is Lemmy dealing with multiple communities on the same topic? To me:

  • If the communities are all active, then I shall subscribe to all of them, but end up having lots of duplicate/similar posts on my feed
  • If there is one community that is dominating, then what is the point of federation?

I was subscribed to [email protected], and just because I actively went into it, I saw a post that the community was frozen and they decided to use another android community on a different server, to avoid fragmentation.

  • AFK BRB Chocolate
    8•1 year ago

    I disagree, I haven’t found it much of an issue. I do two things:

    • Every once in a while I use Lemmy Explorer to look at what’s available and how active.
    • Sort by “All” and one of the short “Tops” or, more often, “New” to see where things I’m interested in are being posted, then subscribed to those.

    I’m not sure why the duplicates are a big deal. What problems do they cause?

    • @[email protected]
      5•1 year ago

      Confusion and activity.

      If there’s 4 different communities for my already niche community, none of the 4 are going to have decent levels of participation.

      I don’t like being subscribed to a large number of communities. It gets hard to sort and read. I prefer to have my subscribed list being small and focused and then just searching for anything else, which doesn’t really work.

      I hated having to discover subreddits too, so it’s nothing new for me

      • AFK BRB Chocolate
        1•1 year ago

        With Reddit, sorting by new was insane - so many submittals every minute that it was a useless approach for finding subs. But Lemmy is orders of magnitude smaller - you can do all/new and get a pretty good feel for content in a dozen pages. Can do the same with top day.

        Long term, I think the competing communities could be an issue, but I doubt many duplicate sets will stay long term - people will migrate to the most active.