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.

  • thegiddystitcher@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Not the person you asked but personally I do think it’ll naturally happen that we just end up glomming together into certain communities. That’s how it tends to go with any such thing. But one slightly overlooked benefit is that splinter communities can have the same name. No passive-agressive “/c/thetopic”, “/c/realthetopic”, “/c/betterthetopic”, “/c/thetopicwithouttoxicmods” etc etc etc.

    • nosurf@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Extremely new to all of this. If each can have the same name, then would that mean one instance of a lemmy “subreddit” that share the same name not be able to see the other?

      • pineapple@lemmy.pineapplemachine.comEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Extremely new to all of this. If each can have the same name, then would that mean one instance of a lemmy “subreddit” that share the same name not be able to see the other?

        Nope! That’s why community names are often formatted like community@website. As many instances can use the same community name as they like, everyone can see and individually interact with each of them. Even if two communities are both named tech, they are still distinct from one another by the website that’s hosting them.