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submitted 1 year ago by Lemmyin@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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[-] riskable@kbin.social 68 points 1 year ago

I may be just a pie-in-the-sky optimist but I think the duplicate communities thing will die down eventually. Natural selection will do it's thing and we'll all eventually settle in specific communities on specific instances.

Based on the nature of life itself all living things become specialized over time. This includes creatures, jobs, products, communities, etc. So what's likely to happen is some communities will die out or be abandoned while others will thrive and yet others will simply become more specialized.

Hypothetical example: /m/gifs on Kbin might become the place to find perfect loops and high quality/serious stuff while /m/gifs on some other instance might become the place for animated silliness.

[-] lrabbt@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

I think "duplicated" communities is a problem even on a centralized service, to a lesser degree, since you can create a community with same intentions, but different names (e.g. c/video, c/videos). I'm also optimistic they will sort out with time

[-] Casallas@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago

Agree, the fragmentation of communities is a stumbling block for adoption and for the coalescing of users to solidified groups that adopt identities and cultures. This is a huge advantage when looking at centralized systems like reddit. My hope is that there will be some version of natural selection but that it occurs sooner than later

[-] Confuzzeled@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Even on reddit their were multiple subreddits that were very similar. r/oculus r/oculusquest r/quest2 r/virualreality and many more ar and xr subbreddits I was subscribed to. Much of the same content were on all of them. As the user base here grows it won't be an issue, some similar communities will be bigger some smaller and there's room for everything.

[-] Casallas@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah i hope this happens I just hope sizable communities form faster so more adoption moves here.

[-] andobando@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Im not sure what you're saying. Personally I want to avoid one huge centralized "community" as it no longer ceases to be a community.

It makes sense to me that different userbases have different /r/funny with different content that they find funny. Otherwise you just have one appeal to the lowest common denominator content.