I’m new to Lemmy, probably like most of you. I figured if you were part of the major Reddit exodus, you’d be looking for some of your favourite subs. Feel free to post pics of bikes, ride reports, gear you like or complaints about the cagers. We’re not fussy here yet.
The problem I am seeing is there needs to be ONE motorcycles community, I see 3 right now. Too bad Lemmy can’t/doesn’t restrict duplicates. This will fragment the communities (unless I’m confused). New here as of last night and figuring this out but we should all try to be very careful about duplicating communities at least if I understand what I think I understand.
Was going through my subs on Reddit to try to start subbing to the same ones here.
I’m not knocking you, this is all new… But what makes sense?
Hmm, I didn’t see a single one when I searched on Friday, so I created this one. I’m sure one of them will shake out to be the “popular one”. What’s the bike in your pic btw?
I’m definitely not pointing fingers at you for making a duplicate (just FYI). Just an observation, and honestly should probably be handled at the Lemmy level, if that’s even possible. I haven’t been here 24h yet I just stumbled on there being multiple “motorcycle” communities when trying to subscribe to stuff.
As for pic, not sure which picture you mean. If you’re referring to the screen shot, none of that is mine. It’s just.one of the communities.
It’s a bit of the wild west for now, but you’re right. Pretty much anyone can create a community, and I actually think that’s a good thing. Have you ever been part of an online community that you loved, and it shifted to something you just didn’t want to be part of anymore? When that happens, the decentralized nature of Lemmy and similar federated social media makes it possible for a new community to form and grow that is different, and for some, better.
Interestingly, when I search for motorcycles in the communities I only see two. This one, and another that has a single subscriber. Motorcycles are Fun doesn’t show up for me. I think perhaps which communities you see depends on what server you signed up with, and what other servers that one links to. Right now I am signed into lemmy.world. I see from your photo that you were signed in to feddit.de. Perhaps OP was signed into a different server. This is a real problem for Lemmy IMHO. If I can’t search and find ALL the Lemmy communities from my “home” server, and have to create accounts at other servers to see different content and communities, well, forget it. Caveat, I am also brand new and may not have a clue what I’m talking about, just observations from a noob at this point.
I’m actually signed up via lemmy.world also, but found that link from here. (Listed as a way to find communities across all instances
https://join-lemmy.org/instances
Again, IMHO it just adds to the confusion with multiple places to discuss the same thing… Or maybe you just subscribe to all of them and it doesn’t matter. :)
That’s my plan. I’m subbed to a bunch of duplicated topics.
I feel like the point of instances is that you are able to have multiple of the same communities and if one fails you have other options of the same name which feels better to me than having a unique community name. If that community fails then you don’t have to find similar communities with random names you never would’ve guessed was about the same thing.
Looking back at this post from five days ago…when we had 17 subs and now are at 229 as of this comment. That’s like, a 1200% increase? Plenty of new posts as well.
I’m in awe of how much growth this community has seen. I was on a work trip for a few days and expected to come back to 30 people, I was pretty hyped… But we’re on track for 300 by the weekend!
