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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] 10 points 1 year ago (9 children)

They haven’t. I’ve given up on finding new communities at this point since it’s a ton of work to figure out which ones are active and which ones are worth subscribing to.

It’s one of the biggest problems with the platform, despite it also being one of the biggest selling points.

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

It’s a feature not a bug. Your frustration is with the fediverse and decentralization itself.

Up to you to decide if this is more or less frustrating than a CEO like spez 🤷‍♂️

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

False choice fallacy. Those are not the only two choices. We can look for ways for lemmy itself to help resolve the issue.

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