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 android@lemmy.world, 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.

  • Monkeyhog@lemmy.world
    31·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • mtcerio@lemmy.worldOP
      3·
      1 year ago

      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 android@lemmy.world.

      • Monkeyhog@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        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.

      • Kichae@kbin.social
        0·
        1 year ago

        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.

        • mtcerio@lemmy.worldOP
          2·
          1 year ago

          The “old” community was frozen.

          https://lemmy.world/post/1117612

          “Our feeling, and our decision, is that while having multiple communities for the same topic is a key strength of the fediverse, we’re keen to avoid unnecessary fragmentation for existing members and confusion for any newcomers.”