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.

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      It’s the price I pay if I want to honor my FOMO. I can always pick one and live with potentially missing some things or not seeing comments from some community members who picked a different instance if I want to prioritize avoiding multiple threads instead. You’d get duplicate posts on a single subreddit anyway, so it doesn’t seem that much different.