Say what you will about reddit, at least an established subreddit was the place to gather on the topic, ie r/technology etc.

With Lemmy, doesn’t it follow that similar communities on different instances will simply dilute the userbase, for example [email protected] and [email protected]. How do we best use lemmy as a (small c) community when a topic can be split amongst many (large C) Communities?

This is an earnest question, in no way am I suggesting lemmy is inferior to reddit. I’m quite enjoying myself here.

  • Blue
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    61 year ago

    This assumes that power doesn’t corrupt and that the big “kind” communities don’t eventually turn bad.

    • @[email protected]
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      221 year ago

      That’s exactly the point: if they become “bad”, we can always move to another one with the same name but on another instance

    • scientiam
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      11 year ago

      Just to chime in, the other issue is consolidation of these communities by a small handful of people (i.e. powermods).

      They’ve already started doing it here too, trying to grab all the keywords and popular communities (e.g. [email protected]) so it’s something to keep note of moving forward too especially as certain instances start to see more growth than others.