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How do we deal with similar communities on different Lemmy instances? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by blitzen@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] Blue@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This assumes that power doesn't corrupt and that the big "kind" communities don't eventually turn bad.

[–] Krusty@feddit.it 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's exactly the point: if they become "bad", we can always move to another one with the same name but on another instance

[–] seirim@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

This is such a great feature and advantage.

[–] scientiam@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Just to chime in, the other issue is consolidation of these communities by a small handful of people (i.e. powermods).

They've already started doing it here too, trying to grab all the keywords and popular communities (e.g. anime@lemmy.ml) so it's something to keep note of moving forward too especially as certain instances start to see more growth than others.