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.

  • kobra@lemm.ee
    2·
    1 year ago

    It’s a feature not a bug. Your frustration is with the fediverse and decentralization itself.

    • hamsteronvase@lemmy.sdf.org
      2·
      1 year ago

      False choice fallacy. Those are not the only two choices. We can look for ways for lemmy itself to help resolve the issue.

    • BURN@lemmy.world
      11·
      1 year ago

      I know it is, and it’s why I’m still not sure I’m going to stick around. I don’t like federation. It’s confusing and is going to be what keeps this platform from any kind of mainstream adoption.

      I personally don’t see the point if it doesn’t grow a whole lot more. Most of the communities I enjoyed on Reddit don’t exist here and probably never will, because they were already niche communities on Reddit.