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.
Yeah that’s fair.
I think the best situation is that as a general guideline short abbreviations like that are avoided, and in the case of unavoidable name collisions one or both communities would have to further specify the name to avoid conflict.
So the pros are easier user accessibility, a fix of duplicate communities, and the cons is name collisions and potential abuse from communities on different instances.