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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 android@lemmy.world, 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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[-] JGWentworth@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

This is Lemmy's greatest weakness, in my opinion. It's too decentralized. I want one place (Lemmy) to go to for everything about my topics of interest. Everyone keeps explaining it as "lemmy.world is like Reddit and lemmy.ml is like Twitter." No. No it's not. It's all Lemmy. It's just that there are multiple Lemmys, each with their own separate sections for each topic, and anyone can make a new Lemmy at any time. That's a problem. I don't want to become part of a community, no matter how big and popular it becomes, only to find out that there is a better one on a different Lemmy server and I've been wasting my time this whole time. This just means that if Lemmy were set up properly then that better community would have been the one that I would have found because it is easy to find and the website design lends itself to finding relevant topics of interest. Right now Lemmy is so frustrating to use. It looks worse than Old Reddit and is less user friendly than New Reddit. Lemmy will never see the popularity or usefulness that Reddit has had if it stays decentralized like this. Imagine asking your friend where on Twitter they found an interesting post and they reply, "No, no, it's not on Twitter 35, it's on Twitter 83." That's dumb as hell. We don't need multiple Reddits, multiple Twitters, or multiple Lemmys.

[-] habanhero@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago

I think you are missing the point of Lemmy if you think it's "too decentralized". Too many Reddit refugees are eager to bend Lemmy into some kind of Reddit-shaped clone and failed to realize the differences are mostly intentional.

I actually think that multiple communities about the same topic isn't as big of an issue as most people make it out to be. If two "competing" communities grows to be large enough you will eventually get the similar content and it doesn't really matter which one you sub to, unless of course if one is "toxic" then the choice is clear. And you can always sub to both.

[-] JGWentworth@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Wow, there was a whole conversation beneath my comment and neither lemmy.world nor the Jerboa app gave me any kind of indication that someone had replied to me. God, Lemmy fucking sucks.

[-] spicycape@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Try connect for lemmy, you can enable notifications

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