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.
It’s a feature not a bug. Your frustration is with the fediverse and decentralization itself.
Up to you to decide if this is more or less frustrating than a CEO like spez 🤷♂️
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.
False choice fallacy. Those are not the only two choices. We can look for ways for lemmy itself to help resolve the issue.