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!

  • @Candelestine
    1•1 year ago

    I follow each, optimal is opinion, not fact, and will vary person to person. Yes you can crosspost, assuming no blocks or bans are interfering. No they will probably never merge, consolidation is the polar opposite of the main point of this entire place.

    Reddit had shittons of duplication too, you’re just not thinking of it right now.

    I do have accounts on multiple servers, for when this one has technical issues. This is my main, however, I picked it because it will probably be the largest. Yes I subscribed all over from here.

    Welcome to the community.