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!
I’m a little guilty of this myself since I’m trying to see which instance I want to settle on, so I’ve made a few duplicate communities across the three I’m on (Lemmy, kbin, shitjustworks.)
That having been said, while they may be very similar now, I assume that each will develop its own unique flavor so to speak. There is probably also a sizable pool of folks who prefer local communities since they are probably choosing their instance based off of moderation, wanting communities to follow specific guidelines.