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.

  • Kichae
    2•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.

    • @mtcerioOP
      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.”