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preYeah, I keep saying this to people when they worry about fragmentation. Like it's important to have all the Baseball fans in the same Baseball forum under one big banner.
No, that's not better, that's worse. What you want is a thousand interconnected forums with 100 people each, not a forum with 100,000 people.
How is community engagement better in a interconnected forum compared to a single forum consisting of all the participants? I'm asking out of ignorance
How would cross community discussions take place?
manitcorto start with, ive had more vibrant, long and interesting conversations more often on a site of 300-3,000 as opposed to a sub with millions.
I can imagine small communities spread across. By virtue of its size, there are high chances of topics staying relevant too.
I am concerned about small bubbles though. Discussions in single instances that never bounce across to similar communities in other instances but I suppose that's putting the cart before the horse
realistically the same thing happens on reddit, any sub not big enough is very unlikely to ever be featured on the home page, and this is not always a bad thing, some communities are not interested in being featured, some are brigaded as a prize.
cwagnerMillions, probably. But most subs I’m in are small, and most subscribers don’t even post. Fragmenting those further just kills discussion.
i think its just another UX issues, reddit also had the concept of topics but it was rather weak and not leveraged. With a federation setup topical sorts should get more prevalence. Even getting some small communities togher might be a challenge, even some small comms dont post because reddit culture rather than the sub being small. "back in the day" you could easily find active communities of 10 users on a phpbb forum.
alternativeninjaI agree but I think the days of phpbb forums are unfortunately over. I don't think people will switch back to them.
id disagree, this dynamic exists on discord with thousands of communities and hundred's of redundant servers. What you are seeing as "people" is mostly "folks Stockholmed by reddit"