Hi there -
I’m trying to dive into the fediverse and am debating kbin vs lemmy instances. My question is on how people approach dealing with with communities /magazines that share names, subject matter between the various instances.
For example - the “Fediverse” magazine in kbin.social is not the same as the “Fediverse” community in lemmy.world (they obviously have different namespaces) but the content is often similar and the subject matter is pretty much the same. (I imagine other implementations will have their own flavours too.)
As a user, how do you decide which is the optimal one to follow? Do you subscribe to each? Can you cross post between them? Could/would the magazines/communities eventually merge?
I get that everything is federated and things will congeal to have some being more dominant (or not) over time, but coming from a reddit world, it’s definitely a bit more daunting. This is ok. Change is good - just looking at how people tend to approach this.
Do you have accounts at multiple servers? Do you pick one and subscribe from all over?
Interested in hearing how you tackle it.
Cheers!
Honestly, it’s kind of a terrible experience.
You can just try to join them all but the problem we will run into is people not following or remembering the rules of each.
It perhaps would have been better if their couldn’t be duplicates but then who decides which domain can host which community?
My gut feeling is it will probably only get better if the websites and apps make it super clear with design and font that they are separate.
Ex. Informally [email protected] is shown with a font color and an icon next to it in all apps and domains so it becomes uniquely recognizable.
This is just an unfortunate downside of a federated system.