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.

  • veroxiiEnglish
    12·
    3 years ago

    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.

    • MacEnglish
      6·
      3 years ago

      Maybe have custom lists created by keyword that merge all the content and the user can blacklist any instances they don’t want.

      • swcollingsEnglish
        2·
        3 years ago

        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.