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My take is that Reddit, Lemmy, and any system that allows non-admins to create subreddits/sublemmies/communities/whatever pretty much plays out similarly:
I don''t feel like any of this is really different in the fediverse, the only difference is that the community name is longer
tech@lemmy.ml
instead of/r/tech
. Buttech@lemmy.ml
andtech@beehaw.org
isn't functionally any different than/r/tech
and/r/otherTechSucksOursIsGood
. The social dynamics that determine community participation play out in almost exactly the same way in both cases.The few exceptions are with a lemmy instance that doesn't federate to any/most instances and has limited account signups. That sort of lemmy instance could create intentionally separate communities that are really tightly controlled. So you could talk about tech news exclusively with computer-science students at your university or something. But at that point it's less like lemmy the fediverse app and more like a standalone bulletin-board system like phpbb or something. For almost all lemmy instances and almost all communities on them, overlapping lemmy communities behave very similarly to overlapping subreddits.