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submitted 2 years ago by blitzen@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Say what you will about reddit, at least an established subreddit was the place to gather on the topic, ie r/technology etc.

With Lemmy, doesn't it follow that similar communities on different instances will simply dilute the userbase, for example !technology@lemmy.ml and !technology@beehaw.org. How do we best use lemmy as a (small c) community when a topic can be split amongst many (large C) Communities?

This is an earnest question, in no way am I suggesting lemmy is inferior to reddit. I'm quite enjoying myself here.

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[-] DudePluto@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

It will sort itself out. The only difference is reddit's search function works slightly better because it's centralized, but I think that issue will be solved eventually

[-] wizjenkins@lemmy.wizjenkins.com 7 points 2 years ago

I could see a good use case for having at least a centralized, cross instance search where the instances will send up community information to the service and then the service shares it out with everyone. Rather than make a new community on my instance I could find the active community and federate it.

Then again the same thing happens on Reddit for popular topics. Like when a new game is announced there might be 5 people trying to start the subreddit for it.

[-] Barbarian@lemmy.reckless.dev 4 points 2 years ago

Definitely early days teething issues. There's gonna be thousands of dead communities in a week's time and it'll take time before things settle down and people come to a consensus on the major ones.

this post was submitted on 07 Jun 2023
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