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blitzen Jun 7, 2023

How do we deal with similar communities on different Lemmy instances?

How do we deal with similar communities on different Lemmy instances? - Lemmy

Say what you will about reddit, at least an established subreddit was the place to gather on the topic, ie r/technology etc. With Lemmy, doesn’t it follow that similar communities on different instances will simply dilute the userbase, for example [email protected] and [email protected]. How do we best use lemmy as a (small c) community when a topic can be split amongst many (large C) Communities? This is an earnest question, in no way am I suggesting lemmy is inferior to reddit. I’m quite enjoying myself here.

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DudePluto Jun 7, 2023

It will sort itself out. The only difference is reddit's search function works slightly better because it's centralized, but I think that issue will be solved eventually

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Jordan Jenkins Jun 7, 2023

I could see a good use case for having at least a centralized, cross instance search where the instances will send up community information to the service and then the service shares it out with everyone. Rather than make a new community on my instance I could find the active community and federate it.

Then again the same thing happens on Reddit for popular topics. Like when a new game is announced there might be 5 people trying to start the subreddit for it.

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Barbarian

Definitely early days teething issues. There's gonna be thousands of dead communities in a week's time and it'll take time before things settle down and people come to a consensus on the major ones.