mtcerioJul 18, 2023

How is Lemmy dealing with multiple communities on the same topic?

https://lemmy.world/post/1711675

How is Lemmy dealing with multiple communities on the same topic? - Lemmy.world

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.

Show threadMonkeyhogJul 18, 2023
I dont think you understand the point of Lemmy. Lack of centralization is key! And not just of instances, but communities too. Fragmentation is kind of the point.
Show threadmtcerio
I think I do understand it. One of my points above is one community decided to merge into the other to prevent fragmentation. Not my own words, sticky post on [email protected].
Jul 18, 2023 at 4:12pmWeb
Show threadKichaeJul 18, 2023

The mods decided to merge. Don't conflate the mods with the community. Plenty of members weren't interested in migrating and merging, and they shouldn't have to participate.

There's no reason they can't stay in the old community.

Show threadmtcerioJul 18, 2023
The “old” community was frozen.
Show threadMonkeyhogJul 18, 2023
Thats because the mods of that community also don’t understand lemmy either. Their could be a million communities for the same topic. It doesn’t matter.