If I understand Lemmy correctly, you can create duplicate communities on different instances. Isn’t this kinda counter productive because this may lead to less user interaction in those communities, because the user base gets split up between competing communities.

Is there a way to fight this division of the (small) userbase or is this effect even desired because it leads to more tight knit communities on the different instances?

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      ‘Stop asking this’ is not a really helpful thing to say. We have a lot of new users, including myself, and everybody is figuring out how Lemmy works. Redundant questions will occur and lets answer those in a respectful manner.

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    Embrace it, my homie. Think of lemmy use as more of a multireddit. Subscribe to things you prefer, then view it through that tab. So what if there’s a dozen posts about something big? It’s that way on reddit, facebook, and twitter for sure.

    That’s the benefit of federation. You get to see all of what’s out there once you get used to the way it works. You’ll have less of a stranglehold on information because nobody can bogart a single community name. My edc community might restrict politics, but the one on beehaw might not, and the one at feddit might encourage it directly.

    It’s much harder to accidentally fall into an echo chamber here with news. Not impossible! But harder. You’d have to choose to do so usually.

    I know it seems weird, but trust the principle that underpins federation. It will settle out within a month or so of the migration. And it’ll be fairly democratic, with communities becoming popular based on how they function rather than name camping.

    This is a culture shock for us r/efugees, but it is going to be so much harder for our communities to be ripped apart because of it.

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    I think this is desired. Lemme give my case. I think r/historymemes is absolutely flooded with racism, tankies and neo-nazis, and perhaps more than the rest, colonial apologia. Reddit being centralised, I can’t create another r/historymemes.

    Say we have a c/historymemes in some instance. The same racism and shit happens. No problem, I can look for a new c/historymemes on some other instance that is better moderated in regards to those problems.

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    I suspect it doesn’t really matter - users can see all of the communities across all of the instances when they search, and they can choose which ones are of interest to them.

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      it matters a lot. if something is happening you want a quick overview of big discussion and not jump between a bunch of 10 small discussion rooms.

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    There were duplicate communities all over Reddit too, as long as he didn’t have exactly the same name there were lots and lots of subs that had more or less the same content with overlaps of subscribers. Whenever those duplicates eventually one will pull ahead and most people will be active there.

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    I’d rather have multiple small communities than monolithic ones in most cases personally, that and it avoids the reddit problem of being forced to use a subreddit despite bad/creepy mods cause you can just make your own version in another instance

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    Yea, it’s an endless debate lately.

    Just subscribe to everything, and use your judgment where to post if you post. We can already see some clear bias towards the largest ones so it’s possible the small clones will be left behind.

    Or not and dupes will remain. Wait and sew after things settle down a bit.

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    Why fight it? If they want 3 different asklemmy instances, let them. Eventually users will flock to the most active one, or there will be parallel ones. Then it’s on you to either join all or stick to whichever one you feel most welcome at.

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    Users who are looking for larger communities can just dogpile whatever is popular and users who aren’t will find something that fits them better just as they always have. I think some people do struggle with not having the massive fire hose they are used to though but everything starts somewhere; it never was going to be everything to everyone all at once. I’m personally finding not being lost in a sea of noise to be more engaging.

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    I think it’s a valid question. I think there is value in allowing separate communities, but it makes discovery harder.

    It would be nice to see a way of creating meta lists with one click signup functionality, so curated lists can be created.

    And/or the ability for communities to be able to link perhaps? So they become functionally one community, but with the ability to split remaining in the individual admins control.