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.
I think over time some apps will add functions to allow you to visually merge them. But purely at a UI level. They will still be separate instances on the backend.
Maybe have custom lists created by keyword that merge all the content and the user can blacklist any instances they don’t want.
This seems like the way to go. For another example, there are about forty different Christian subreddits, and I just merged all the ones I was interested in into one custom feed. Same with all the subs about news from Europe.