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How is Lemmy dealing with multiple communities on the same topic? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I come from Reddit and been enjoying Lemmy so far. How is Lemmy dealing with multiple communities on the same topic? To me:

If the communities are all active, then I shall subscribe to all of them, but end up having lots of duplicate/similar posts on my feed
If there is one community that is dominating, then what is the point of federation?

I was subscribed to [email protected], and just because I actively went into it, I saw a post that the community was frozen and they decided to use another android community on a different server, to avoid fragmentation.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you're looking at pictures of cats, it's not a big deal. If you're asking for support with a niche operating system, it's nice to know that what you're looking at is the entirety of Lemmy's resources without having to manually check that a new community popped up or federated in. Which is something that's happening a lot as Lemmy gets more popular.

It's sounds like we disagree on the benefits of decentralized communities. And I do understand your thoughts, I just think that the tools for finding content should be more automated to get the full benefit.

Have a good one

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

100% agree content discover should be better, no doubt.